After we left Honfleur, we drove about an hour to the Pegasus Bridge Memorial, which lies near Benouville village. The area near the bridge was part of Operation Deadstick, which was a major objective in the opening minutes of the invasion of Normandy. With Operation Deadstick, commander Major John Howard of the gliderborne unit of the British 6th Airborne Division, landed there on on 6 June 1944 to take the bridges from the Germans. The most famous of those bridges is now known as the Pegasus Bridge. The bridge was renamed afterwards in honor of the shoulder emblem that was worn by the British airborne forces, the flying horse, Pegasus. The bridge is unique as it is a subtype of a bascule bridge design, due to it not pivoting on a hinge point when becoming movable to allow for ships to pass through. The engineering of this bridge allows the bridge to actually roll back on the curved tread plates attached to the girders of the main span, allowing for a wide...