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Major Reginald John Howard DSO (8 December 1912 – 5 May 1999) [1] was a British Army officer who led a glider-borne assault that captured the Caen canal and Orne river bridges on 6 June 1944, as part of the D-Day landings during the Second World War.
Aug 27, 2017 · Major (Reginald) John Howard DSO (8 December 1912 – 5 May 1999) was a British Army officer who led a glider-borne assault on two bridges between Bénouville and Ranville in Normandy, France on 6 June 1944 as part of the D-Day landings during the Second World War.
Within 10 minutes and with the loss of only two men dead, the daring coup de main placed both bridges in Allied hands. Howard’s company thus became the first attackers of the Normandy Invasion on…
May 9, 1999 · Maj. John Howard, the commander of glider-borne British infantrymen who seized the strategically vital Pegasus Bridge in the first battle of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, died Wednesday in...
John Howard wanted to stay in the Army and become a career soldier, but his injuries were such that he was invalided out without much ceremony. He entered the Civil Service instead and worked for the National Savings Committee and the Ministry of Food.
Jun 8, 2014 · Maj John Howard led men from the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry to seize Pegasus Bridge. A soldier who led a dangerous mission to Normandy on D-Day was among those remembered at a...
Apr 21, 2015 · Major John Howard led the attack by the 6th British Airborne Division on what was to be called Pegasus Bridge. The task given to Howard was to capture the bridge – a vital link over the Caen Canal of the River Orne. His men were the first British troops to land in the D-Day landing of June 6th 1944.
