Sainte-Mère-Église: The First Town to be Liberated on D-Day

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Sainte-Mère-Église was the first town to be liberated on D-Day. It remains a popular place to visit in Normandy because it was memorialized in the 1962 movie, The Longest Day.

As famous as Sainte-Mère-Église is today, what's not generally known is how and why the town fit in to the overall invasion plan, the way in which it was liberated, and most importantly--who fought there, and what they experienced.

In this video, we visit Sainte-Mère-Église and talk about leaders like Colonel Edward C. Krause, Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort, and Private John Steele who all played an important role in determining its outcome of that battle on June 6, 1944.

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