Even the most basic of delays in getting German troops to the beaches would have been important and the capture of the bridge that guarded the main road to Ouistreham and then on to the beaches further west was of great importance to the Allies.
Control of the road, also meant that the 6th Airborne Division, that had been dropped to the east of Caen, could be supplied by Allied troops that had landed at Sword Beach. Without any control of this road, the 6th Airborne would have been starved of vital equipment. Another important point is the simple fact that the Allies were landed behind enemy lines. A Junker 88 manages to drop his bomb with precision and it ricochets off the bridge without exploding and falls into the canal.
Junction with amphibious troops. The French commandos arrived from Sword Beach in the morning, accompanied by British soldiers of the 1st Special Service Brigade commanded by Lord Lovat — the latter accompanied by the famous bagpiper Bill Millin. In the afternoon, around pm, the French volunteers of Kieffer commando number 4 reach the bridge, which is still beaten by the German fires.
Smokes are sent. As he crosses the bridge, radio operator Mullen, a Kieffer commando member who landed at Sword in the morning, hears a bullet ricocheting right behind him on the deck structure. When he turns around, he sees in the smoke one of his wounded friends this soldier dies a few moments later as a result of this injury by the bullet of a sniper, a German sniper.
He lowers to help but is hit by a sniper and collapses, lifeless. His brothers in arms, including Maurice Chauvet, wanted to put a commemorative plaque on the Pegase Bridge that can currently be seen in the Pegasus Memorial Memorial Museum in Ranville. Two airborne soldiers, including one officer, died during the assault on the two bridges. The mission was filled for Howard who had joined the amphibious troops and entrusted the protection of his objectives to the Warwickshire regiment.
They then left the position to reach the town of Escoville. Indeed, if the operation is a total success, it is thanks to a series of unpredictable circumstances the famous fog of war by von Clausewitz that all played in favor of the British. The successful assault of this bridge offered the Allies a key control point to protect the left flank of their bridgehead against possible German attacks.
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