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The site of many dropping errors
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On the night of June 5 to 6, 1944, Pathfinders, scout parachutists, were dropped from C-47s in the area behind the landing beaches of Normandy. They aimed to seize Carentan and form a bridgehead towards Cherbourg. Dropping errors propelled 75% of the soldiers into the marshes and the village of Sainte-Mère-Église. The first American cemetery of Normandy, created in the village in June 1944, houses 3,000 graves. On the church square where paratrooper John Steele landed on the steeple, the Airborne Museum retraces the first days of Operation Overlord.
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