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65th anniversary of D-Day NORMANDY
101st airborne Sector
In the Heart of the Landing Beaches
Thursday 4 June
ANGOVILLE-AU-PLAIN : 11:30 : WWII reenacted parachute jump from C-47 aircraft on the original Drop Zone 'D'
Friday, 5 June
SAINT-COME-DU-MONT : Opening three day outdoor exhibition at the D-Day Paratrooper Historical Center in the field at Dead Man's Corner.
The 3rd Battalion of the 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division Airborne Medics
Airborne War Correspondents & Special Motion Pictures Unit
CARENTAN : 21:30 Liberation Ball. Salle des Fetes at the Port of Carentan. Open to all, dancing to the Swing Dance Orchestra. Singers include Flash Back and Kelly Ann Sproult to give a true 1940's ambience. US Veterans attending.
Saturday 6 June
SAINT-COME-DU-MONT : Opening three day outdoor exhibition at the D-Day Paratrooper Historical Center in the field at Dead Man's Corner. 101 Airborne meeting and book release: `Tonight We Die As Men' and it's companion DVD `The Forgotten Battalion,' at Dead Man's Corner Museum.
Bill Galbraith, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division Manny Barrios 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division Ralph Bennett, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division
Sunday 7 June
SAINT-COME-DU-MONT : 10 h 00 : 500 Paratroops of the `BIA March' gather in the village for the ceremony to Joe Beyrle. Arrival of the veterans and Honor Guard. 15 h 15 : Marchers arrive at ?Dead Man's Corner Museum? to form up for final phase. 15 h 45 : Marchers move down Purple Heart Lane in formation to Carentan.
CARENTAN : 9 h 00 : Depart of the BIA, Place du Grand Valnoble (registered participants only) 16 h 30 : Recreation of the famous medal ceremony in the square at Carentan. Arrival of the veterans and Honor Guard. Followed by a short ceremony attended by town officials.
Brothers in Arms March V
Road to Carentan
In the footsteps of the 101st Airborne Division
The Carentan Historical Foundation in association with the D-Day Paratrooper Historical Center and the Municipalities of Carentan and Saint-C?me-du-Mont in Normandy is organizing its 5th annual march on Sunday 7th June 2009. The 18km trek follows the historic trail carved out by the 101st Airborne Division as its soldiers fought bravely to liberate the region in 1944. This being the 65th anniversary of D-Day we are expecting more than five hundred participants to take part. The marchers who include people from the USA and Japan will be
dressed in US Airborne clothing (authentic to the period) to commemorate the sacrifice of the young American paratroopers who went on to capture Carentan. The day will start in the heart of the battlefield at Saint-C?me-du-Mont with a ceremony to honor Technical Sergeant Joseph R. Beyrle. Joe was a paratrooper from the famous 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, who was taken prisoner after he landed on the church roof on June 6th 1944 by German paratroopers from the 6 FJR.
Three of his comrades in arms will be making a special trip from the USA (two of them for the first time since the war) to participate at the ceremony and to promote a new book
`Tonight We Die As Men' and it's companion DVD `The Forgotten Battalion,' at Dead Man's Corner Museum, about their exploits in Normandy during June 1944. Bill Galbraith, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division Manny Barrios 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division Ralph Bennett, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division TONIGHT WE DIE AS MEN
THE UNTOLD STORY OF THIRD BATTALION 506 PARACHUTE INFANTRY REGIMENT FROM TOCCOA TO D-DAY By Ian Gardner and Roger Day
Taking their title from a brief prayer by 3rd Battalion C.O. Lt. Col. Robert Lee Wolverton (who would be killed during the early morning hours of D-Day) said shortly before boarding
their C-47 "Skytrain" aircraft for the flight to Normandy, Gardner and Day have produced a highly detailed study of one battalion's harrowing first weeks fighting in France.
As Ed Shames, a veteran of the 506th, writes in the Foreword, Tonight We Die As Men is "the most detailed history ever written about the battles that began the drive to free the European continent of the German armies. Many books and accounts have been written about the invasion of Normandy, but never have you read one that has been more accurate about the facts and events of this period of warfare."
The battalion's D-Day objective was to land at Drop Zone `D', east of Saint-C?me-duMont and seize control of two small wooden bridges - one for foot traffic and the other for vehicles - over the Douve River east of Carentan. The mission was vital, for the Germans had built the bridges a few months earlier to enable them to rush reinforcements into the coastal area in the event of an Allied landing.
The fierce and costly battle for these two bridges is the focus of Tonight We Die As Men. The Germans, too, knew the importance of the bridges and would not relenquish them without an all-out fight.
The two British authors take the reader back to Toccoa, Georgia, and the initial training received (some would say endured) by the men of the 506th PIR, commanded by Col. Robert F. Sink, then on to airborne training at Fort Benning and Camp Mackall. They also flesh out the personalities mentioned in the book so that by the time the regiment is in England and preparing for its baptism of fire in Normandy, the reader has developed a fondness for each trooper.
This personalizing of the men also serves to intensify the feeling of loss when the soldiers are killed in the savage fighting on D-Day and the month after. Of the 575 officers and men who jumped on D-Day, the unit lost 93 killed and 73 listed as missing in action. Scores more were wounded. It will be hard to find a better book about a single airborne battalion in World War II.
Mason B. Webb WWII History Magazine
The marchers will then step back in time to discover the Norman Bocage that was so familiar to the soldiers of 101st Airborne. The final leg of the event takes the participants, lead by tanks and a host of military vehicles including a L-4 airplane - down the now famous "Purple Heart Lane" across the Douve bridges before ending in Carentan.
All participants please note: US Para and airborne troops combat uniform, 101st Airborne Division is required.
At 15:15 approx, members of the public can expect to see the marchers lead by their vehicle escort arriving in `Purple Heart Lane' for the final leg of the event before crossing over the Douve bridges and finishing in Carentan at 16:00.
BIA March Information & registration: Carentan Historical Foundation Email : brothersinarmsmarch@orange.fr Tel : +33.2.33.42.00.42
T/4 Joseph R. "Jumpin Joe" BEYRLE "I" Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division
Joe Beyrle is thought to be the one of only a handful of American soldiers to have served in both the United States Army and the Soviet Army in World War II. "The invasion of Normandy was on," recalled Joe (who has since passed away). "We flew approximately 90 minutes from England before crossing the Normandy Peninsula. Flying at approximately 700 feet the formation started taking AA and ground fire. Several of our planes were hit and exploded or crashed. We got the stand-up and hook-up, red light, green light and jumped at approximately 400 feet directly over the town of Saint-C?me-du-Mont." Under fire from a machine gun located in the church tower he landed on the church and slid feet first down it's high-pitched roof but somehow managed to check his fall. A barn was burning some distance away at Tammerville, lighting up the area, and the Germans had now turned their fire in its direction. Alone, Joe decided to head
west back down the line of flight where he hoped to locate other members of his stick. During the hours before daybreak he located and attempted to destroy a mobile generator near the center of town and using hand grenades attacked a group of Germans who were gathering nearby. Whilst trying to find a safe way out of the town he crawled through a hedgerow and stumbled into a well-defended German MG42 position and was surrounded by enemy paratroopers and taken prisoner. Faking a back injury, two of the enemy soldiers took him to an aid station in the town recently established and run by his battalion surgeon Dr Stanley Morgan, who had also been captured by the Germans. After a failed escape attempt he was marched to a nearby prisoner-holding area before being taken to a German underground HQ in an apple orchard south of Saint-C?me for interrogation.
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