Past Meets Present: La Fiere's Recent Floods Echo the D-Day Landscape of 1944.

November's visit to the D-Day landing sites unexpectedly transported us back to 1944, revealing a striking snapshot of La Fière's historically flooded fields.

“In all of the airborne operations of ETO, the Merderet Bridgehead operation by elements of the 82nd Airborne Division was the one attended by the greatest difficulty and hardships, a large measure of which was directly due to the faulty circumstances of the drop and the inordinate handicaps of the individual assemblies,”
Colonel S. L. A. Marshall, Hist…