![]() ![]() from whom (along with other British and German survivors) he later got much of this story. For Ambrose, maximum-biographer of Eisenhower, this brief chronicle of a single engagement in a busman's holiday for fair: leading a veterans' battlefield tour in 1981, Ambrose was approached at Pegasus Bridge-one of the pair of crossings, over the Caen Canal and Ouse River, that Company D captured and held on D-Day-by none other than Major Howard. The recent, deglorifying accounts of D-Day and after (John Keegan, Max Hastings) left untouched the repute of the British Sixth Airborne Division-one unit of which, the gliderborne troops of Major John Howard's D Company, made the first, crucial Normandy landing. ![]()
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