A synopsis of events at the Memorial Pegasus Museum, Ranville, Normandy for 5-6 June 2009.  

The Memorial Pegasus is dedicated to the British 6th Airborne Division in 1944.

June 5 2009
 
0845 - Mass parachute drop by up to 400 serving paratroopers from British 3rd Parachute Battalion over the D-Day drop Zone close to Pegasus Bridge, weather conditions permitting.
 
1100 - Drop by parachute volunteers from 4+ vintage C-47 Dakota aircraft, possibly escorted by P-51 Mustang fighters.
 
1200 - Remembrance Ceremony on the original Pegasus Bridge in the grounds of Memorial Pegasus, followed by the inauguration of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission exhibition.
 
Afternoon concert by the Dutch Pegasus Pipes & Drums Band.
 
6 June 2009
 
0016 - Ceremony at Major John Howard’s bust beside the Caen Canal & arrival of the runners from Project 65.
Project 65 was created to honour the memory of the men who took part in the Coup de Main operation to capture the bridges over the Caen Canal & Orne River in the early minutes of D-Day.
 
A team of fund-raising volunteers will leave Tarrant Rushton airfield on 4 June 2009 & run 65 miles (62 miles to Portsmouth, followed by a cross channel ferry crossing, then a final three miles to Benouville) to arrive at Pegasus Bridge at 0016 on 6 June 2009 - exactly 65 years to the minute since the assault by glider infantry of 2nd Oxfordshire & Buckingham Light Infantry commanded by the late Major John Howard.
 
1400 - Assembly of guests at Memorial Pegasus in preparation for the inauguration of 6 plaques dedicated to the 2nd Oxf. & Bucks + Royal Engineers involved in the Coup de Main operation. The plaques will bear the names of the men of the  men carried in the six Horsa gliders + the pilots of the tug aircraft - more than 180 in total.
 
1500 - Inauguration ceremony, with Guest of Honour General Sir Peter Dannett, Chief of General Staff of the British Army + veterans of the D-Day operation.
 
More to follow as it firms up…