Stories from Normandy

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For those who walked these shores, and those who remember

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Sainte-Mère-Église

The Paratrooper Who Hung From the Church

Private John Steele of the 82nd Airborne Division was one of many paratroopers whose planes were hit by flak and forced to drop at low altitude over Sainte-Mère-Église. As he descended, he was hit b...

June 6, 1944 Private John Steele...