Glider Marker 2 Bénouville

This Glider Marker had been placed on the place where the second Horsa glider landed near the Bénouville Bridge.

The text on the memorial:
THE HORSA GLIDER OF LIEUTENANT
D.J. WOOD, PILOTED BY STAFF SERGEANTS
BOLAND AND HOBBS AND ALSO CARRYING
CAPTAIN H.R. NEILSON ROYAL
ENGINEERS AND 28 SOLDIERS LANDED ON
THIS SPOT AT 0017 HOURS ON 6 JUNE 1944.

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Source

• Text: Jente de Roust
• Photos: Jente de Roust
• AMBROSE, S.E., De pegasus brug, De Boekerij, Amsterdam, 2009.

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