The story
20.30. On the Greenham Common airfield, Eisenhower had come to wish good luck to the "screaming eagles" of the 502nd Parachute Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. English paratroopers, meanwhile are preparing to jump at one end of the assault area.
Photo: Eisenhower on Greenham Common Airfield,
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You have arrived at just one small part of Back to Normandy — a personal project dedicated to preserving stories, images, music and memories of the Second World War.
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