John Howard (British Army officer)
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John Howard (British Army officer)
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Major Reginald John Howard DSO was a British Army officer who led a glider-borne assault that captured the Caen canal and Orne river bridges on 6 June 1944, as part of the D-Day landings during the Second World War. These bridges spanned the Caen Canal and the adjacent River Orne, and were vitally important to the success of the D-Day landings. Since the war, the bridge over the canal has become known as "Pegasus Bridge," a tribute to the men who captured it. The bridge over the River Orne later
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British Army officer (1912–1999)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard_(British_Army_officer)
date created:
2005-03-29T11:56:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T03:24:15Z
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