Memorial Pegasus,June 2014
We next visit the Memorial Pegasus, Ranville-Benouville. Museum of the British 6th Airborne Division.
Memorial Pegasus Museum
The Memorial Pegasus at Ranville in Lower Normandy, is a museum and memorial to the 6th Airborne Division who successfully captured the Pegasus Bridge on D Day. Be sure to subscribe for more content, and for further information about this location and it's history, check out the following link...
D-DAY : musée Mémorial Pegasus de Ranville (14)
Le musée Mémorial Pegasus a été inauguré le 4 juin 2000 par SAR le Prince Charles d'Angleterre et le Ministre français de la Défense, Alain Richard.
Ce musée est dédié aux milliers de soldats de la 6ème Division Aéroportée Britannique arrivés par parachutes et par planeurs dans la nuit du 5 au 6 juin 1944, qui sont devenus les premiers et héroïques libérateurs atterris en Normandie.
L'architecture externe du bâtiment rappelle la silhouette des planeurs qui atterrirent par centaines dans la région, le 6 juin 1944.
Le musée relate les différentes missions confiées à la 6ème Division, dont le plus spectaculaire fut la prise des ponts de Bénouville sur le canal de Caen et de Ranville sur l'Orne.
La collection exposée comprend plusieurs centaines d'objets et de documents authentiques, souvenirs historiques et émouvants de cette période inoubliable de l'histoire contemporaine.
Des explications données par un guide autour d'un plan relief de la région, un film d'archives vous feront revivre les premières heures de la libération de la Normandie.
Dans le parc du musée se trouve le Pegasus Bridge d'origine, premier pont libéré de France continentale, dont la prise constituait l'une des missions les plus spectaculaires de la 6ème division Aéroportée. La maquette grandeur nature d’un planeur Horsa du débarquement.Le Musée est ouvert vert tous les jours sauf du 15 décembre au 31 janvier.
De 1er février au 31 mars et du 1er octobre au 15 décembre : de 10h à 17h
du 1er avril au 30 septembre : journée continue de 9h30 à 18h30
Visites guidées en français et en anglais.
Memorial Pegasus
Museo situado en el pueblo de Randeville
Normandy Vlog, Pegasus Bridge and Ranville Cemetery, Part 1
Normandy Vlog, Pegasus Bridge and Ranville Cemetery. Pegasus Bridge is a bascule bridge (a type of movable bridge), that was built in 1934, that crossed the Caen Canal, between Caen and Ouistreham, in Normandy, France.
Also known as the Bénouville Bridge after the neighbouring village, it was, with the nearby Ranville Bridge over the river Orne, later renamed Horsa Bridge, a major objective of the British airborne troops during Operation Deadstick, part of Operation Tonga in the opening minutes of the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944 during the Second World War. A unit of glider infantry of the 2nd Battalion, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, British 6th Airborne Division, commanded by Major John Howard, was to land, take the bridges intact and hold them until relieved. The successful taking of the bridges played an important role in limiting the effectiveness of a German counter-attack in the days and weeks following the Normandy invasion.
In 1944 it was renamed Pegasus Bridge in honour of the operation. The name is derived from the shoulder emblem worn by the British airborne forces, which is the flying horse Pegasus.. The Ranville War Cemetery is a Second World War cemetery containing predominantly British soldiers killed during the early stages of the Battle of Normandy. It is located in and named after Ranville in the Calvados department, east of Caen in lower Normandy. A large proportion of those interred were members of the British 6th Airborne Division. Enjoy and thanks for watching.
Pipers at the Memorial Pegasus Museum, Ranville, Normandy on D-Day 2013.....
via YouTube Capture
Memorial Pegasus is dedicated to the men of the 6th Airborne Division
Inaugurated on 4 June 2000 by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, the Memorial Pegasus is dedicated to the men of the 6th Airborne Division and their heroic actions during the Battle of Normandy 1944.
The Memorial is now the Guardian of the original Pegasus Bridge. The Memorials collection of historical artefacts is constantly increasing in size, advice on their historical accuracy being given by the British Airborne Assault Normandy Trust.
Visitors to the museum enjoy its modern design and leave, having learnt much of the vital part played by the 6th Airborne Division which while sustaining heavy losses held the eastern Flank of the landing beaches for eighty days.
FEUILLETON : Pegasus Bridge, un pont vers la liberté
La prise du pont de Bénouville, le Pégasus Bridge, est restée dans les mémoires. Dans la nuit du 5 au 6 juin, 3 planeurs américains atterrissent à côté du pont. En quelques minutes, John Howard et ses hommes prennent le pont : une manœuvre extrêmement bien répétée …
Infos pratiques :
Du 1er Avril au 30 Septembre : de 9 h 30 à 18 h 30
Mémorial Pegasus
Avenue du Major Howard
14860 Ranville
Tél : 02 31 78 19 44
Fax : 02 31 78 19 42
info@memorial-pegasus.org
Visite de trois vétérans du D-Day au Mémorial Pegasus de Ranville
Trois mois avant les célébrations du D-Day, Franck Pendergast, Bill Gladden et Frederick Glover étaient au Mémorial Pegasus de Ranville, mercredi 6 mars 2019.
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Ranville War Cemetery, Calvados, France.
Video of the Ranville War Cemetery in Calvados, France. The Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944.
Ranville was the first village to be liberated in France when the bridge over the Caen Canal was captured intact in the early hours of 6 June by troops of the 6th Airborne Division, who were landed nearby by parachute and glider. Many of the division's casualties are buried in Ranville War Cemetery and the adjoining churchyard
The CEMETERY contains 2,235 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 97 of them unidentified. There are also 330 German graves and a few burials of other nationalities.
The CHURCHYARD contains 47 Commonwealth burials, one of which is unidentified, and one German grave.
This is one of many D-Day and CWGC site vids I've posted - search on g4shf D-Day to find them.
Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum
Video I took at the Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum. It had some fascinating items - and was a really remarkable place to visit.
D-day Normandie para drop boven Ranville bij de Pegasus brug 6 juni 2009
Pegasus Memorial Video - School Project
Music: Redd - Vicdani Red
normandy american cemetery, ranville cemetery and pegasus bridge museum pictures and movies.
short trip to cemeteries and museum normandy beaches.
Lt H D Brotheridge's grave, Ranville Churchyard, France
This is the grave of Lt H D Brotheridge, reputedly the first man to die in action during the D-Day landings. He's buried in Ranville churchyard with comrades from the Pegasus Bridge landings.
You can read about him at
Ranville Cemetery in France. Our visit to a family gravestone
We visited Pegasus Bridge in Ranville along with my Grandfathers' grave. A solemn and sad day. We remember how pointless wars are
Pegasus Bridge Memorial advertiser
A way to Liberty
Pegasus Bridge @Benouville/Ranville student advertiser
Music: Woodkid - Iron (Instrumental)
Mrs Ashwin & Mr Worthington owners
Filmed and edited private
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PEGASUS BRIDGE MEMORIAL (in Normandy)
superb memorial to those extraordinary brave men who fought and died to liberate Europe -----Tom Vigar
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