Friday, June 13, 2014

Sainte-Mère-Église, France

Is that a paratrooper hanging from the parapets of Sainte-Mère-Église? Indeed! It's been seventy years since le débarquement en Normandie, but the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions are still honored by a grateful town, one of the first liberated from Nazi occupation. Want to know more? Read or watch The Longest Day. [2005]

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