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Sainte-Mère-Église was the first village in Normandy liberated by the United States Army on D-Day, June 6, 1944. #121479526
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Sainte-Mère-Ãâ°glise was the first village in Normandy liberated by the United States Army on D-Day, June 6, 1944. On the night before D-Day American soldiers of the 82nd Airborne parachuted into the area west of Sainte-Mère-Ãâ°glise in successive waves. US troops of the 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment attacked the village capturing thirty Germans and killing another eleven.