Normandy, June 5, Part 2

Ceremony at the town of Carentan.  D-Day Veterans are in the front row.  In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, the Carentan area was the drop zone of the 101st Airborne paratroopers.

Carentan Ceremony – 101st Airborne Color Guard Team.  

Paratroopers dot the evening sky over Utah Beach.  

One hundred – ninety- two brave Americans gave their last full measure at Utah Beach on D-Day.   Seventy- one years later, the same number of lanterns were lit.  As they ascended they drifted northward over the English Channel.

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