Marcel Jean, mayor of Chef du Pont, France, remembers the heroic fighting of the 82nd Airborne Division's 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment along the Merderet River in a ceremony held June 3, 2011, to remember the fallen. After parachuting into, the 508th freed the village and captured a nearby bridge from the Germans during the Allied invasion of France, June 6, 1944.
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
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