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82nd Airborne's special relationship with D-Day village endures virtually amid pandemic


82nd Airborne’s special relationship with D-Day village endures virtually amid pandemic
December 15, 2020
On Tuesday, the 82nd Airborne Division held an unboxing event for postcards sent from the residents of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France in lieu of the in-person commemorative traditions interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Maj. Lloyd E. Bedford III/Army)
Troops from the 82nd Airborne Division held a virtual unboxing of postcards from the people of Sainte-Mère-Église, France on Tuesday, in a post-COVID continuation of the division’s long-standing relationship with the village that began on the morning of June 6, 1944 D-Day.
Before dawn that day, thousands of 82nd paratroopers floated into the village and surrounding countryside as part of the Allied invasion of Normandy. One soldier, John Steele, landed with his parachute caught on the steeple of the local church, a scene immortalized in “The Longest Day” and in-person at the historic church, where ....

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