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Sainte Mere Eglise D day nineties commemoration tour
UPI reports on the 20th anniversary of D-Day as 18 000 U S airborne troops return to Sainte Mere Eglise to relive the first town liberated in 1944. Gen Matthew Ridgway and Gen Maxwell Taylor lead an official Johnson delegation. Local mayor Alexandre Renaud recalls the night of June 5 1944 and the dawn flag raising at 4 a m.
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Joseph W. Grigg
Sainte Mere - Eglise
France
UPI
United States
101St
82Nd Airborne
Normandy
D-Day
Johnson
Matthew B. Ridgway
Maxwell Taylor
U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
U. S. Airborne
Sainte Mere-Eglise
Sainte Merc- Eglise
Alexandre Renaud
Renaud
82Nd
101St Airborne
Cherbourg