The first British troops to arrive in Normandy on D-Day were the men of D Company, and to be more specific it was the 2nd Oxfordshire and the Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
They landed in Benouville very late on the 5th of june and too over the bridge in the very early morning of June 6th. The troops were led by the Major John Howard. They captured the Caen Canal Bridge, and later they renamed it the Pegasus Bridge in honour of the cap badge of the 6th Airborne Division.The bridge was capture very quick after a 10 minutes fight. Major Howard had a lot more time that he expected before the the German counter attack about 2 hours later. Paratroopers had made their way to help reinforced Howard. They took control of Pegasus Bridge and the Bridge of Orne.