To: snippy_about_it
Dear snippy_about_it,While I was visiting St.Mere Eglise in Dec.2000,I had the priviledge of meeting a man named Howard Manoian.He was a member of Company A,505th PIR,82nd Airborne Division and jumped in there(St.Mere Eglise)on June 5th,1944.Howard is quite a celebrity in those parts.He has lived nearby for nearly 20-years.I am returning to Normandy this December and I hope to find him at the little brasserie(adjacent to the church where John Steele's parachute became snagged)cursing in both French and English!He is rather a curmudgeonly fellow and a HERO among the locals!!
To: bandleader
That's wonderful. Give him a cheer for us!
39 posted on
11/18/2003 8:26:09 AM PST by
snippy_about_it
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To: bandleader
PFC John Steele
St. Mere Eglise Church, PFC John Steele was played by Red Buttons in "The Longest Day"
42 posted on
11/18/2003 8:41:33 AM PST by
SAMWolf
(Hey, who spilled coffee on my Tagline?)
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