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To complete the dream of the Association of the Pegasus Bridge, the Prefecture (regional authority) of Lower Normandy transferred the ownership of the bridge to a Memorial which was to be created in honor of the British 6th Airborne, which was accepted and cherished with great joy. The grant that was received from the French Government was not enough, so donations were accepted to finish the Memorial of the Pegasus Bridge.
In celebration of the paratroopers coming on June 5th, 1944, this new memorial was opened on June 5th, 2000, and was then inaugurated June 6th:
The Pegasus Memorial inaugurated
Prince Charles paid hommage yesterday morning at Dunkerque to the veterans of the operation 'Dynamo,' that, in May-June 1940, resulted in the evacuation to Britain of 345,000 British soldiers who had been encircled by the German Army. In the afternoon Charles went to Ranville, where he inaugurated the Pegasus Memorial, a museum consecrated to the soldiers of the 6th Division of the Royal British Paratroopers, whom, on the night of June 5th and the morning of June 6th, liberated the Pegasus Bridge, which was the first bridge to be liberated in continental France.
-The French News
And for those young British soldiers who gave their lives for our liberty, we wish peace. They rest in a cemetery near Ranville, in the number of 2200, and we give them, and all those who fought, the Pegasus Memorial as a gesture of our gratitude.
-The Association of the Pegasus Bridge
-Claude-Andre Simoneau
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