A monument to La Londe Airfield (Advanced Landing Ground A6) which was located in Normandy between Saine-Mére-Église and Beuzeville-au-Plain.
LA LONDE
FIRST US ARMY AIR CORPS AIRFIELD IN FRANCE
12 JUNE TO 25 JULY 1944
PROTECTED BY THE 552ND AAA AW BN (MBL)
LT COLONEL BENJAMIN M WARFIELD COMMANDING
BY COURTESY OF ASSOCIATION MEMBERS
JUNE 1979
Address
Route de Beuzeville au Plain / Chasse des Coisnets
Sainte-Mère-Église, Manche
50480
France
Coordinates
49.41872, -1.303069
Parking
The Airborne Museum is located in Sainte-Mere-Eglise and is dedicated to the American paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Division who were dropped into Normandy and fought as part of Operation Overlord.
Sainte-Mère-Église Church in Normandy, famous for its D-Day paratrooper, John Steele who hung from the church steeple for several hours after the 82nd airborne division was mistakenly dropped onto the town
The first marker of the Liberty Trail which goes from this point to Bastogne in Belgium
