The Normandy Invasion we know as D-Day had dropped paratroopers from the air and unloaded men from Higgins boats while men waited at sea to resupply troops and resources needed to move inland.
It was a bloodbath on a level no one could have imagined, although those in command had expected it. The first young men struggling to gain a foothold had little chance of survival.
Very few of those that made it up the cliffs and inward were not injured. Just 10 miles from Utah Beach lies the little village of Angoville-Au-Plain. A stone church, built in the 1600s, had provided refuge for years for those looking for solace.
For three days during and after the invasion, the church provided refuge in a way it had never known. It became a first aid station and field hospital as two medics showed extraordinary skill and compassion to 80 injured soldiers, both German and Allied.
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