Here is a Pegasus cup. Cups are sold liberally at a cafe by the River Orne near Ranville in Normandy, northern France. At this time of the year, early June, the place is abuzz with tourists wanting to buy these cups and other memorabilia from the cafe, still in the family after a hundred years. Why? Because just before midnight on 5 June 1944, a number of gliders arrived silently and their passengers overwhelmed the German guard, capturing the strategic bridge the cafe sat next to.
The bridge that was taken was renamed Pegasus Bridge because
