Piper Bill, Pegasus Bridge, Normandy, 13.00hrs, 6th June 1944 by David Pentland. (AP) REG171 Hook received a head wound

Hook received a head wound when a spear struck off his helmet

well within the range of the enemy AA guns

Here an SLC has cut its way through the torpedo netting

he shot down three Me109s in a day and three Fw190s another day

177 bombers that were stationed there

Piper Bill, Pegasus Bridge, Normandy, 13.00hrs, 6th June 1944 by David Pentland. (AP) REG171 Hook received a head woundDHM1394AP. Piper Bill, Pegasus Bridge, Normandy, 13. 00hrs, 6th June 1944 by David Pentland. Commandos of 1st Special Service Brigade, led by Lord Lovat, are piped past the defenders of the Caen canal (Pegasus) bridge by piper Bill Millin. The bridge was originally taken in a coup de main attack by the gliders of 6th Airborne Divisions D Company, 2nd battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, led by Major John Howard earlier that