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Liberty Road (French La voie de la Liberté) is the commemorative way marking the route of the Allied forces from D-Day in June 1944. It starts in Sainte-Mère-Eglise, in the Manche département in Normandy, France, travels across Northern France to Metz and then northwards to end in Bastogne in Belgium, on the border of Luxembourg.
Then the Battle of Sainte-Mère-Église unfolds including fighting in the marshes and for the bridges before the battle of the hedgerows. The tour ends in a hall with more evocative exhibits. Michael Reagan (third from left, son of former US President Ronald Reagan ), helped lay the first stone of a new conference center, May 19, 2015
On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the commune of Sainte-Mère-Église. [2] During World War 2, as part of the opening phase of Operation Overlord, due to the crossing point on the Merderet River, Chef-du-Pont was a priority objective of the Allies. [3] The objective was part of the 82nd Airborne Mission Boston parachute assault.
Forces landing on Utah cleared the immediate area in less than an hour, and penetrated 6 miles (9.7 km) inland by the close of D-Day. [92] [93] Within two hours of landing, the 82nd Airborne captured the important crossroads at Sainte-Mère-Église, but they failed to neutralize the line of defenses along the Merderet on D-Day as planned.
Monument to John Steele, whose parachute caught on a church pinnacle on D-Day. Today, these events are commemorated by the Airborne Museum (Sainte-Mère-Église) in Place du 6 Juin in the centre of Ste-Mère-Église and in the village church where a parachute with an effigy of Private Steele in his Airborne uniform hangs from the steeple. [2]
With the help of a Frenchman who led them into the town, the 3rd Battalion captured Sainte-Mère-Église by 0430 against "negligible opposition" from German artillerymen. [10] The 2nd Battalion established a blocking position on the northern approaches to Sainte-Mère-Église with a single platoon while the rest reinforced the 3rd Battalion ...
Sainte-Mère-Église (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t mɛʁ eɡliz]) is a commune in the northwestern French department of Manche, in Normandy. [3] On 1 January 2016, the former communes of Beuzeville-au-Plain , Chef-du-Pont , Écoquenéauville and Foucarville were merged into Sainte-Mère-Église. [ 4 ]
The 2nd Battalion, much of which had jumped too far west near Sainte Mère Église, eventually assembled near Foucarville at the northern edge of the 101st Airborne Division's objective area. It fought its way to the hamlet of le Chemin near the Houdienville causeway by mid-afternoon, but found that the 4th Division had already seized the exit ...