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Sainte-Mère-Église: How Lost Paratroopers Freed the First Town on D-Day
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Sainte-Mère-Église: How Lost Paratroopers Freed the First Town on D-Day

A stick of paratroopers landed in what felt like the wrong country and stumbled onto one of D-Day's most critical objectives entirely by accident.

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