USS Kearsarge by Randall Wilson
He was awarded a CBE in addition to his Distinguished Flying Cross with two bars
Here an SLC has cut its way through the torpedo netting
Hook received a head wound when a spear struck off his helmet
well within the range of the enemy AA guns
Piper Bill, Pegasus Bridge, Normandy, 13.00hrs, 6th June 1944 by David Pentland. (AP) REG171 USS Kearsarge by Randall WilsonDHM1394AP. 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