Sainte Me`re E`glise. Where it started.

The invasion started in this location. The 82nd and 101st Airborne parachuted into Normandy on the night of June 5–6, 1944 in Sainte-Mère-Église. Mission was to capture town and lay out signals for the coming landings.

Paratrooper, Clifford Maughan, landed in the church garden & John Steele parachute became caught on the church steeple & where he pretended to be dead for two hours before being captured.

12 were killed in this midnight landing.

Take special note of the stained glass windows in the church.Read more