'Horsa Ground'
'Horsa Ground'

17x21cm Watercolour & Goauche on Paper, 24x18. 2017

A Horsa glider alongside the Pegasus Bridge formerly the Bénouville Bridge where the first troops landed on or just before D day in 1944. The landing was to secure the bridge over the Caen Canal and prevent its demolition which would have hindered the progress inland of the invading forces

'Horsa Ground'

17x21cm Watercolour & Goauche on Paper, 24x18. 2017

A Horsa glider alongside the Pegasus Bridge formerly the Bénouville Bridge where the first troops landed on or just before D day in 1944. The landing was to secure the bridge over the Caen Canal and prevent its demolition which would have hindered the progress inland of the invading forces