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Pfc. Scott Simpson, a medic with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, walks along Utah Beach in Normandy, France, June 4. During the Normandy invasion 65 years ago Simpson's grandfather, Master Sgt. Joseph S...
Taken: 06.06.09 Posted: 06.06.09 Normandy, FR
A child dressed up as a member of the World War II 101st Airborne Division pathfinders, looks down at the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and American flag pins on his jacket at commemoration at Gourbesville, France, June 4. The commemoratio...
Taken: 06.04.09 Posted: 06.06.09 Gourbesville, FR
Pfc. Scott Simpson, a medic with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, holds a copy of his grandfather's military identification card from World War II on Normandy's Utah Beach, June 4. His grandfather lande...
Taken: 06.04.09 Posted: 06.06.09 Normandy, FR
Brig. Gen. Jon Miller, deputy commanding general of 21st Theater Sustainment Command, speaks to veterans before the wreath laying ceremony at Gourbesville, France, June 4. Miller spoke at the ceremony honoring the 300 U.S. Army Soldiers who died i...
Taken: 06.04.09 Posted: 06.06.09 Gourbesville, FR
World War II veterans of the 82nd Airborne Division salute during the playing of Taps at the commemoration ceremony at Gourbesville, France, June 4. Current Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 507th Infantry Regiment and the 101st Airborne Division w...
Taken: 06.04.09 Posted: 06.06.09 Gourbesville, FR
Senior staff members of Task Force Normandy 65 pose in front of a German gun post at Pointe du Hoc, France. Task Force Normandy 65 is in France providing support and ceremonial command and control for the 65th anniversary of D-Day, June 6. Pointe ...
Taken: 06.03.09 Posted: 06.03.09 Pointe du Hoc, FR
Henri Jean Renaud stands in front of the church in Sainte Mere Eglise, France, which contains a stained glass window designed by his brother Paul Renaud that is dedicated to the paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division who liberated the town on ...
Taken: 06.03.09 Posted: 06.03.09 Sainte Mere Eglise, FR
One of the stained glass windows in the church in Ste. Mere Eglise, France, that is dedicated to the paratroopers who liberated the town on June 6, 1944. The window was designed by Paul Renaud, who was 14 years old at the time of the liberation an...
Taken: 06.03.09 Posted: 06.03.09 Sainte. Mere Eglise, FR
Tourists at the Airborne Museum in Sainte Mere Eglise, France, take pictures of an exhibit depicting 101st Airborne Division paratroopers boarding a C-47 aircraft for a jump during the D-Day invasion.
Taken: 06.03.09 Posted: 06.03.09 Sainte Mere Eglise, FR
The building that houses the restored World War II-era C-47 aircraft at the Airborne Museum in Sainte Mere Eglise, France, is shaped to look like a parachute. The museum also has the only restored World War II glider in Europe.
Taken: 06.03.09 Posted: 06.03.09 Sainte Mere Eglise, FR
A restored World War II-era anti-aircraft gun sits on display on the grounds of the Airborne Museum in Sainte Mere Eglise, France. The grounds of the museum showcase a variety of different World War II weapons and armored vehicles. The white parac...
Taken: 06.03.09 Posted: 06.03.09 Sainte Mere Eglise, FR
An effigy of John Steele is displayed on the front of the church in Sainte Mere Eglise, France. Steele, among the Soldiers of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, who jumped into the town on D-Day, became famous after his...
Taken: 06.03.09 Posted: 06.03.09 Sainte Mere Eglise, FR
One of two stained glass windows in the church in Sainte Mere Eglise, France, that is dedicated to the paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division who liberated the town, June 6, 1944 -- the first town in France to be liberated in World War II. The...
Taken: 06.03.09 Posted: 06.03.09 Sainte Mere Eglise, FR
A World War II re-enactor sits outside the church in the center of Sainte Mere Eglise, France, June 2. The tower of the church became renowned when John Steele was caught on its steeple after his parachute was caught as he landed in the town on Ju...
Taken: 06.03.09 Posted: 06.03.09 Sainte Mere Eglise, FR
An exhibit at the Airborne Museum in Sainte Mere Eglise, France, displays photos of John Steele during one of his return visits to Sainte Mere Eglise, France, left, and in his World War II paratrooper uniform. Steele was one of the paratroopers fr...
Taken: 06.03.09 Posted: 06.03.09 Sainte Mere Eglise, FR
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