Sainte-Mère-Église (Sainte-Mère-Église)
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The town's main claim to fame is that it played a significant part in the World War II Normandy landings because this village stood right in the middle of route N13, which the Germans would have most likely used on any significant counterattack on the troops landing on Utah and Omaha Beaches. In the early morning of 6 June 1944 mixed units of the U.S. 82nd Airborne and U.S. 101st Airborne Divisions occupied the town in Operation Boston, giving it the claim to be one of the first towns liberated in the invasion.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Mère-Église
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Coordinates: 49°24'42"N 1°19'26"W
- Sainte-Marie-du-Mont 4.8 km
- Vesly 20 km
- Lessay 26 km
- Créances 30 km
- Brix 30 km
- Port-Bail 31 km
- Pirou 32 km
- Caen 70 km
- Nuneaton 349 km
- Dumfries & Galloway Council 722 km
- Drop site for Operation: Detroit 0.8 km
- Airborne Museum 0.8 km
- La Fiere 3.1 km
- La Fière Causeway 3.3 km
- Azeville Battery 5.7 km
- Écausseville 6.6 km
- Dropzone A-Company, 506st Regiment, 101st Airbourne Division 6.8 km
- Le Ham 7.6 km
- Saint-Marcouf (Crisbecq) Battery 7.7 km
- Crisbecq 8 km