davejb
Re Richard Todd
If you saw the film "The Longest Day" you may remember that Richard Todd (playing Major Howard of the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry) had a very self satisfied grin having captured "Pegasus Bridge".
That, just possibly, was because it was exactly where Richard Todd (then a Lt in the 7 th Battalion Parachute Regt) was on D-Day having jumped from an Albermarle shortly after midnight to re-inforce, with his Platoon, the men of the Ox & Bucks holding the bridge until the arrival of the Lovat Scouts.