All Counterweight and Rivets — Digital Download

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The lifting bridge at Bénouville seen from underneath — all counterweight and rivets. The original was taken in the first minutes of 6 June 1944 by three gliders carrying D Company of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry under Major John Howard, the first Allied action of the day. That bridge now stands in the museum park; this is the one that replaced it in 1994, and it is still a working road bridge.

Pegasus Bridge, Bénouville, Normandy. August 2019. Canon 6D Mark II, 16–35mm.

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Part of Normandy, 1944 — three days on the same coast, seven years apart.