(slideshow) The paratrooper who landed on a church: The story behind D-Day’s ‘Longest Day’

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The village of Sainte-Mère-Église in 1944

One of the strangest incidents during the Second World War took place in the French town of Sainte-Mère-Église. During the Invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, paratroopers of the Allied forces parachuted into the town in the middle of the night.

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