The Longest Day — France
American paratroopers land in and around Sainte-Mère-Église — including the famous scene of a paratrooper caught on the church spire.
Sainte-Mère-Église was the first French town liberated on D-Day. Paratrooper John Steele landed on the church steeple and hung for two hours feigning death before being captured. He was freed the same day when the town was taken.