{"id":21461038,"date":"2026-09-10T10:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/pegasus-bridge-horsa-gliders-d-day-1944\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:49:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:49:52","slug":"pegasus-bridge-horsa-gliders-d-day-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/it\/pegasus-bridge-horsa-gliders-d-day-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegasus Bridge: Six Gliders, No Engines, One Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 00:16 on 6 June 1944, a wooden glider carrying twenty-eight men hit the ground at over ninety miles an hour, tore through barbed wire, and stopped about fifty yards from a bridge over the Caen Canal. It had been cast off from a bomber at 7,000 feet nine minutes earlier, in darkness, with no engine, no radar, no lights and no second attempt.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two more gliders arrived behind it, at one-minute intervals, and did the same thing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those were the first Allied aircraft of D-Day to reach their objective, and the men who came out of them fired the first shots of the invasion. Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory later called the flying the greatest feat of the Second World War, which from an officer not given to overstatement about glider pilots is quite something.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;margin:26px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 12px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 12px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Objective<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#333\">Capture intact the bridges over the Caen Canal and the River Orne, near B&eacute;nouville, Normandy<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 12px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Date<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#333\">Night of 5&ndash;6 June 1944<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 12px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Force<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#333\">&lsquo;D&rsquo; Company, 2nd (Airborne) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, under Major John Howard, with a Royal Engineers platoon<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 12px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Strength<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#333\">181 men: 139 infantry, 30 engineers, 12 glider pilots<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 12px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Aircraft<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#333\">Six Airspeed Horsa gliders, towed by Handley Page Halifax bombers<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 12px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Departure<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#333\">RAF Tarrant Rushton, 22:56 on 5 June 1944<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 12px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Release<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#333\">Over the Normandy coast at 00:07, from 7,000 feet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 12px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>First landing<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#333\">00:16, glider number one, Staff Sergeant Jim Wallwork at the controls, stopping around 50 yards (47 m) from the bridge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 12px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Casualties in the capture<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#333\">Two killed, fourteen wounded<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 12px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Result<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#333\">Both bridges taken intact; demolition charges never fired<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 12px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Awards<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#333\">Eight glider pilots received the Distinguished Flying Medal; Howard received the DSO<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why the bridges mattered more than the beach<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look at a map of the eastern flank of the Normandy landings and the problem becomes obvious. Between Sword Beach and the open country to the east lie two parallel waterways, the Caen Canal and the River Orne, and in 1944 there were two road bridges across them at B&eacute;nouville.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those bridges were the only eastward exit for British forces landing at Sword. They were also the route by which German armour, and specifically the 21st Panzer Division, could come the other way and drive into the beachhead. Intelligence said both were heavily defended and wired for demolition.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blow them and the British 6th Airborne Division, dropping east of the Orne, would be cut off with two waterways at its back. Leave them standing in German hands and the invasion beaches had a road leading straight to them. The bridges had to be taken intact, in the dark, before the Germans could react. There is no way to do that with a parachute drop, because parachutists land scattered and take an hour to assemble. It had to be a glider.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/airspeed-horsa-glider-pegasus-bridge-memorial.jpg\" alt=\"An Airspeed Horsa glider at the Pegasus Bridge Memorial in Normandy\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">An Airspeed Horsa at the Pegasus Bridge Memorial. Plywood, no engine, no armour, and a landing speed that made every arrival a controlled crash. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The aircraft that made it possible<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Airspeed Horsa was made largely of wood, carried around thirty men, and had no engine. It was towed to altitude behind a bomber, released, and then flown down as a very large, very heavy glider by two pilots of the Glider Pilot Regiment who would fight as infantry once they had landed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What made it right for this job is that a glider arrives silently, arrives all at once, and arrives where it is aimed. What made the job nearly impossible is everything else. There is no going around for another attempt. There is no engine to correct with. The pilots had to descend several thousand feet in darkness onto a specific field, in formation, using a stopwatch, a compass and an airspeed indicator, and stop before hitting the water.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/43Hl0X06ejM\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Nine minutes in the dark<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six Horsas lifted off from RAF Tarrant Rushton in Dorset at 22:56 on 5 June, towed by Halifax bombers. Three were tasked with the canal bridge and three with the river bridge. Each carried a platoon of infantry plus five Royal Engineers, whose entire job was to find the demolition charges and cut the wires before anybody could fire them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Halifaxes crossed the Normandy coast at 00:07 at 7,000 feet and released. Nine minutes later, Wallwork's glider went through the barbed wire perimeter of the canal bridge defences and came to rest close enough that the men aboard could see the bridge through the shattered nose. Gliders two and three followed a minute apart.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Glider two broke in half and stopped at the edge of a pond. Lance-Corporal Fred Greenhalgh was knocked unconscious in the crash, thrown clear into the water, and drowned. He was the first man killed in the operation, and by most accounts the first Allied fatality of D-Day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/pegasus-bridge-caen-canal-benouville-july-1944.jpg\" alt=\"A view of Pegasus Bridge over the Caen Canal at Benouville in July 1944 with Horsa gliders in the background\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Pegasus Bridge in July 1944. The Horsas that delivered the assault force are still lying where they stopped, in the background. Photo: Imperial War Museum, public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Ten minutes of fighting<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The German garrison knew an invasion was coming but not when or where, and only two sentries were on duty. One ran off shouting a warning; the other fired a flare, and was shot. Lieutenant Den Brotheridge led his platoon across the bridge, threw a grenade that silenced a machine gun position, and was hit as he did it. He died of his wounds, and is generally recorded as the first Allied soldier killed by enemy fire on D-Day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the infantry cleared the trenches and the pillbox, the Royal Engineers went under the bridge looking for explosives and cutting fuse wires wherever they found them. Both bridges were in British hands within minutes of the first glider stopping. Neither was ever demolished.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holding them was the longer job. The 7th Parachute Battalion arrived to reinforce, German counter-attacks came in with tanks and a gunboat on the canal, and relief eventually arrived with Lord Lovat's commandos coming up from Sword Beach. Fourteen German tanks were destroyed in the fighting in the area that day, and a gunboat was sunk on the canal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U93SlUdE034\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What the pilots got, and what they said about it<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eight of the twelve glider pilots were awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal. Howard received the Distinguished Service Order, presented in the field by Montgomery. Brotheridge was posthumously mentioned in dispatches.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The greatest feat of flying of the Second World War.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory<\/strong> &mdash; Commander-in-Chief, Allied Expeditionary Air Force, on the Pegasus Bridge landing<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wallwork himself, who died in 2013, was characteristically unimpressed by the fuss about being first.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Our only claim to fame is not that we were the first to arrive, but that we were the first to fire a shot.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Staff Sergeant Jim Wallwork DFM<\/strong> &mdash; Glider Pilot Regiment, pilot of the first glider to land at Pegasus Bridge<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/horsa-gliders-pegasus-bridge-caen-canal-1944.jpg\" alt=\"Three Horsa gliders beside the Caen Canal bridge at Benouville in 1944\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Three of the Horsas beside the canal bridge. Photographs like this one are the reason the accuracy of the landing is not in dispute. Photo: Imperial War Museum, public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">One thing almost everybody gets wrong<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The assault is very widely called Operation Deadstick. It was not. Deadstick was the name of the intensive glider training exercise that prepared the crews for the mission, and the assault itself was part of Operation Tonga, the wider British airborne landing in Normandy. The name has stuck to the wrong thing for eighty years, which is a small and forgivable error and worth correcting anyway.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Caen Canal bridge was renamed Pegasus Bridge after the winged horse emblem of British airborne forces. The bridge over the Orne became Horsa Bridge, after the aircraft. The original span now sits at the Memorial Pegasus museum a short walk away, and the caf&eacute; beside it, the Gondr&eacute;e, claims to be the first house in France liberated on D-Day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GdspB_oNQII\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six aircraft. No engines. One pass. It remains, arguably, the most precise piece of flying anybody has ever been asked to do.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>Was the Pegasus Bridge assault called Operation Deadstick?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Not strictly. Deadstick was the name of the specialised glider training exercise that prepared the crews. The assault itself, on the night of 5&ndash;6 June 1944, formed part of Operation Tonga, the British airborne landings in Normandy. The name Deadstick has attached itself to the operation in popular accounts, but it belongs to the training.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How close did the first glider land to Pegasus Bridge?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Staff Sergeant Jim Wallwork&rsquo;s Horsa came to rest around 50 yards, roughly 47 metres, from the Caen Canal bridge at 00:16 on 6 June 1944, after tearing through the barbed wire of the bridge defences. Two further gliders landed at one-minute intervals behind it.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many gliders took part in the capture of Pegasus Bridge?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Six Airspeed Horsa gliders, towed from RAF Tarrant Rushton by Handley Page Halifax bombers. Three were tasked with the Caen Canal bridge and three with the River Orne bridge. They carried 181 men in total: 139 infantry of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 30 Royal Engineers and 12 glider pilots.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who was the first Allied soldier killed on D-Day?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Two men from the bridge assault are commonly cited. Lance-Corporal Fred Greenhalgh drowned after being thrown from glider number two during the crash landing, making him the first fatality of the operation. Lieutenant Den Brotheridge, shot while leading his platoon across the Caen Canal bridge, is generally recorded as the first Allied soldier killed by enemy fire on D-Day.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why use gliders instead of parachutes to take the bridges?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Parachutists land scattered over a wide area and need time to assemble, which would have given the German garrison ample warning to fire the demolition charges. A glider arrives silently, in one piece, with an intact fighting unit already together, and can be put down within yards of the objective. Speed and cohesion were the whole point.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What was the Airspeed Horsa?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Airspeed AS.51 Horsa was a British assault glider built largely of wood, capable of carrying around thirty troops or a light vehicle. It had no engine and was towed to altitude behind a bomber before being released. Its two pilots came from the Glider Pilot Regiment and fought as infantry after landing.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why is it called Pegasus Bridge?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Caen Canal bridge at B&eacute;nouville was renamed Pegasus Bridge after the winged horse emblem worn by British airborne forces. The nearby bridge over the River Orne was renamed Horsa Bridge after the glider. The original canal span is now preserved at the Memorial Pegasus museum close to its former site.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did the Germans try to blow up the bridges?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">They never got the chance. Royal Engineers travelling in the gliders went straight under the bridges looking for demolition charges and cutting fuse wires while the infantry cleared the defences above. Both bridges were captured intact within minutes of the first glider stopping.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Was the Pegasus Bridge assault called Operation Deadstick?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Not strictly. Deadstick was the name of the specialised glider training exercise that prepared the crews. 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