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Sergeant Peter Rocky Bright
Peter Bright, serving with 23 Platoon, 2nd Battalion, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, flew in Horsa Glider No.5 during the coup de main operation against Pegasus Bridge on 6th June 1944. In August he was wounded by shrapnel, posted back to England and promoted to Sergeant.
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Out of the Night - The First To Go In by Robert Taylor. Silently out of the night they came. With flaps deployed, three timber and plywood Horsa gliders swept swiftly down through the night skies, rapidly closing with their objective - Pegasus Bridge over the Caen Canal. On board, with tension etched deep into their blackened faces, men from the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, part of the British 6th Airborne Division, braced themselves for landing. They, and sappers from the Royal Engineers, were about to become the first fighting force to land in France on D-Day. They were about to make history. |
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