Pegasus Bridge

One of our reasons for visiting Normandy was to see the D-Day sites, a very appropriate time to do so since it was the eightieth anniversary of the landings on June 6, 1944. After a weekend in the Etretat area we drove down and started our tour in Benouville at the Pegasus Bridge, a vital link over the Caen Canal, taken by British airborne troops early on D-Day. Benouville was the first French village liberated on D-Day. We had coffee at the nearby Cafe Gondree and then explored the area. We learned that the present bridge is a replacement and saw the original bridge on the grounds of a nearby museum.