A billboard outside the famous Sainte-Mere Eglise church, depicted in the World War II film The Longest Day.

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A billboard outside the famous Sainte-Mere Eglise church, depicted in the World War II film The Longest Day, which told of the accidental dropping of American paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne over the wrong part of Normandy prior to the D-Day landing by Allied forces on Utah Beach on the 6th of June 1944.

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Size: 4288px × 2848px
Location: Saint-Mere Eglise, Normandy, France
Photo credit: © Deborah Harmes / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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