Michael A. Stecker
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Church at Sainte Mere Eglise with Parachute Memorial -- Normandy, June, 2011

On the eve of D-day, paratrooper John Steele of the 505th PIR, parachute caught on the spire of the town church, and could only observe the fighting going on below. He hung there limply for two hours, pretending to be dead, before the Germans took him prisoner.

 
 


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