Airborne

Airborne Cemetery Countryside Mulberry

Airborne Operations on D-Day

Ste-Mère-Eglise

 

the town

 

souvenirs of D-Day available

 

town square

 

monument to the paratroopers

 

mayor and historian

 

the church

 

where the parachutist became entangled
a man named John Steele


The Church

 

the altar

 

stain glass window commemorating the parachutist

 

the liberators from the sky

 

 


 

101st Airborne

 

General James Gavin

 

street named in his honor

 

one of the gliders used to land troops

 

tow rope and the cockpit

 

another view of the glider

 

the soldiers inside

 

a Jeep

 

C 47, a tow plane

 

engine of the C 47

 

artillery

 

American battle tank


Airborne Cemetery Countryside Mulberry

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