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Ste Mere Eglise

Ste Mere Eglise

Ste Mere Eglise was made famous during the Normandy landing by the incident which involved paratrooper John Steele, whose parachute caught on the spire of the town church, and could only observe the fighting going on below. He was later captured by a German soldier. The incident was portrayed in the movie The Longest Day. A parachute and a dummy paratrooper still hangs from the church spire.

From Ste Mere Eglise, head to the Pointe du Hoc. Heavily defended by the Germans, this headland was an ideal post from which to survey the whole coast. It was here that the American troops landed on the dawn of 6 June 1944. A memorial in the form of a granite arrow on the edge of the cliff marks the spot and commands excellent views out to sea as far as the Cotentin peninsula.

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