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Sainte-Mère-Église Church at Sainte-Mère-Église, France, with the paratrooper memorial on the top right of the bell tower.

Sainte-Mère-Église

town, France
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Sainte-Mère-Église, town, Normandy région, northwestern France. It is situated on the Cotentin peninsula, 8 miles (13 km) north-northwest of Carentan and 24 miles (39 km) southeast of Cherbourg, and it was the first French town liberated by the Allies during the Normandy Invasion of World War II. On the night of June 5–6, 1944, American paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division landed there, behind the German coastal defenses, with the aim of cutting the Carentan-Cherbourg...

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