Although security was tight in Sainte-Mère-L'Eglise, several hundred local people lined the streets for several hours in the rain, chanting "Chirac" and "George Bush" and waving US and French flags.
One elderly man complained that the anti-capitalist, anti-globalist and pacifist demonstrations against Mr Bush in Paris and Caen on Sunday and a new protest in Caen yesterday were "completely misplaced".
"There may be disputes with the Americans today. That is normal. But these protesters forget what these young Americans did for us in 1944," he said.
bingo.