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Winged Pegasus and the Rangers (Air War D-Day Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Martin W. Bowman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
This is the third volume of a comprehensive five part work, detailing every aspect of air and paratroop operations on the night of 5/6 June 1944. The 6th Airborne Division was to support British Second Army and First Canadian Army; its task was to seize and hold the left flank of the bridgehead. The 5th Parachute Brigade was to seize the ground each side of the bridges over the Canal du Caen and the Orne River, whilst on the same day seize and hold positions on the long wooded ridge beyond the waterways, running from Troarn in the south to the sea. This ridge with the bridges behind would eventually form the critical left flank of the army and the bridges had to be intact to permit Allied troops and supplies to pass easily back and forth. The 3rd Parachute Brigade, which included the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion (1,800 men) was to prevent enemy reinforcements moving towards the British beachhead. Another Battalion and the 1st Canadian Brigade had to destroy five bridges in the flooded valley of the Dives. The 9th Battalion had to silence a battery of four concrete gun emplacements on high ground near the village of Merville, 3 miles east of Ouistreham. For these tasks 38 and 46 Groups RAF dispatched 264 aircraft and 98 glider combinations, the glider tugs being Albemarles, Dakotas, Halifaxes and Stirlings, the gliders mainly Horsas with a few Hamilcars (carrying light tanks and 17-pounder anti-tank guns). Meanwhile, Brigadier Lord Lovats 1st Special Service Brigade, composed of four Army and one Royal Marines Commando, reached Pegasus Bridge en route to help other units of the Airborne Division.Allied intelligence had pinpointed 73 fixed coastal gun batteries that could menace the invasion. At Pointe-du-Hoc, a cliff rising 100 feet high from a very rocky beach, a six-gun battery which potentially could engage ships at sea and fire directly onto Utah and Omaha was taken by three companies (225 men) of the US 2nd Ranger Battalion using rocket propelled grapple hooks attached to climbing ropes and portable extension ladders to scale the cliffs within ten minutes after landing and capture the position.This dynamic episode in the history of D-Day is expertly researched and relayed with both style and reverence for the aircrew who participated in proceedings. A plate section of rare black and white images supplement the text, working further to create a real sense of the times at hand at this most pivotal point in the history of D-Day.
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    Air War D-Day
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    279 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Pen & Sword Aviation
  5. Publication date
    August 19, 2013
  6. File size
    4.9 MB
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Martin Bowman is one of Britain’s foremost aviation historians and has written many books and articles. He lives in Norwich.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00FOGG1O4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword Aviation (August 19, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 19, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.9 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 279 pages
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  • S. A.
    5.0 out of 5 stars I am sure I'll like it though
    Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2016
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    Received, thnx. Haven't read it yet, I am sure I'll like it though.
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  • Colin G.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Short easy to read. But left a lot of questions.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2022
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    Well written as you would expect from this author. Found it short on detail that I was expecting. Which in turn left questions. I have picked up his other book D-Day Dakota's, hopping that that is a little more informative..
    The book is easy to read and quite entertaining. But from the point of someone who has studied airborne equipment and uses,it leaves ,in my opinion a lot out.
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  • Mike O'Connor
    4.0 out of 5 stars The Paras Storm Normandy!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2013
    WINGED PEGASUS AND THE RANGERS is the third volume in Martin Bowman's AIR WAR D-DAY pentalogy. A 2013 Pen & Sword Books release, it chronicles the combats of various British and American paratroops and glider troops on the night of 5/6 June 1944.

    Bowman's book tops off at 138 pages, four-fifths of which describe the fighting seen by various 6th Airborne Army units. Different units - the 5th Parachute Regiment, the 3rd, the 1st Canadian, etc. - had various objectives such as seizing the Orne River bridges, silencing the Merville batteries, etc. Bowman relates the action through dozens of first-person reminiscences of participants, excerpts from books and so on. The reader gets a real 'from-the-foxhole' perspective of the bloody combats fought that night by Commonwealth 'para' units.

    The last 17 pages of the book describe the U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion's grim struggle to storm the Pointe-du-Hoc batteries overlooking the Omaha and Utah beaches. Here again, personal accounts give an unvarnished portrait of combat.

    As with other AIR WAR D-DAY books, WINGED PEGASUS AND THE RANGERS provides a gripping and exciting account of the fight for Normandy. Recommended.
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  • militaryman-WMAHM
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another book that helps fill in parts of a famous invasions planning.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2017
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    A must if you have bought the other books, as its like only buying a couple of chapters of a mystery, and not knowing the end.
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