'Horsa Ground'

17x21cm Watercolour & Goauche on Paper, 24x18. 2017
A Horsa glider alongside the Pegasus Bridge formerly the Bénouville Bridge where the first troops landed on or just before D day in 1944. The landing was to secure the bridge over the Caen Canal and prevent its demolition which would have hindered the progress inland of the invading forces