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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]
The museum holds more than 10,000 items, including the CG-4 glider and the C-47 Skytrain, there is equipment used by generals James Gavin, Matthew Ridgway, J. Lawton Collins and John Steele's military decorations. The items on exhibit from World War II were used by paratroopers who jumped into Sainte-Mère-Église during the Battle of Normandy.
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 3rd Battalion, 505th PIR may have been given credit for securing Sainte Mere Eglise, but it was parts of F Company of the 2nd Battalion which landed in downtown Sainte Mere Eglise. Private John Steele, one of the men hanging on the church steeple, was in F Company.
Sgt. John H. Fuller (later field promoted to Lieutenant) Combat engineer, 299th Engineer Combat Battalion Tony Mordente: Wyman Cook, 82nd Airborne Division Bob Steele: Corporal Alexander Paratrooper, 82nd Airborne Division Richard Beymer: Pvt. Arthur 'Dutch' Schultz Paratrooper, 82nd Airborne Division [4] Red Buttons: Pvt. John Steele
Those of the 82nd were west (T and O, from west to east) and southwest (Drop Zone N) of Sainte-Mère-Eglise. Each parachute infantry regiment (PIR), a unit of approximately 1800 men organized into three battalions, was transported by three or four serials , formations containing 36, 45, or 54 C-47s, and separated from each other by specific ...
Travis Steele's path to Miami of Ohio. Steele and his wife, Amanda, have three children, Winston, Anderson and Aspen. He coached AAU ball from 2001-2006 and was an assistant at Ben Davis High ...
Johnny Steele (Steeley) was a childhood friend of my father from Metropolis, IL. I have a postcard from John Steele from Normandy in June 1964. A previous postcard said he could not attend my wedding because he had been asked by St. Mere Eglise to be part of the 20th Anniversary of D-Day celebrations. That postcard is lost.