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For me, when they landed, they were like heroes in a movie," Paul Renaud, a 14-year-old resident of the Norman town of Sainte Mere Eglise on D-Day, said years later, in a story reported on the U.S. Army website.

The people of Normandy, France still pay tribute to their D-Day liberators 80 years after the epic Allied invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944. Among the tributes are images of paratroopers in church stained-glass windows. (Matt Cardy; Philippe Clement/Arterra/Universal Images Group; Sean Gallup, all via Getty Images)

A World War II dummy paratrooper hangs from a spire of a church in Sainte Mere Eglise, Normandy, France. It commemorates American soldier Pvt. John Steele, whose parachute got stuck on the church steeple while he was jumping into France on D-Day. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

WWII veterans from the U.S. gather in the town center of Sainte Mere Eglise, northwestern France, on June 5, 2024, part of the D-Day commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy. The D-Day ceremonies on June 6 this year mark the 80th anniversary since the launch of 'Operation Overlord', a vast military operation by Allied forces in Normandy, which turned the tide of World War II. (MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images)

A man takes a picture of a stained-glass window in a church in Sainte Mere Eglise, Normandy. The artwork commemorates the town's liberation on June 6, 1944, by paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne. (DAMIEN MEYER/AFP via Getty Images)

A tribute to U.S. Army medics and D-Day paratroopers Kenneth Moore and Robert Wright in Angoville au Plain, Normandy, France. It was left by British schoolchildren for the 75th anniversary of D-Day outside a church the soldiers turned into an aid station after jumping into France. June 6, 2019. (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)

Two great symbols of the United States, the bald eagle and the Statue of Liberty, highlight another stained-glass window, with parachutes of the American liberators descending around their national icons.

Moore and Wright saved fellow paratroopers and the seaborne infantry that landed on the beach and made their way inland later on June 6. The medics earned international acclaim by providing aid to German soldiers, too.

A stained-glass window in Angoville au Plain, Normandy, France pays homage to American paratroopers who jumped into the town on D-Day, June 6, 1944, to begin the liberation of Europe. (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)

Heroes of both the United States and France, Moore and Wright won the hearts of local residents when they cared for wounded civilian girls caught in the crossfire of D-Day and in the days of fighting that followed.

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The second of the memorial windows, designed by Carl Edwards in 1984, commemorates the 40th anniversary of D-day and all those who served in Operation Overlord. The window can be found in the south transept of the medieval part of the building in the Holy Martyrs Chapel above the Bertram Ramsey windows. The window includes the shields of the Allied forces, the RAF, Royal Navy and Army and the D-Day and Normandy Fellowship. The window was presented by the fellowship to the cathedral and was unveiled by the Queen Mother. The inscription on the window quotes the Francis Drake prayer:

SAINTE MERE EGLISE, France -- It was the middle of the night and the town of Sainte Mere Eglise was on fire. Occupied by the Germans since June 18, 1940, the town had survived several allied air raids.

A stray incendiary bomb from one of those raids had set a building near the town square on fire and it was spreading. The townspeople formed a chain to ferry water from the pump in the town square to the fire.

At about 1:30 a.m. that day -- June 6, 1944 -- the sky filled with hundreds of American paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division. Well lit by the flames beneath them, the paratroopers were easy targets for the startled German soldiers on the ground. One of those paratroopers was Pvt. John Steele of F Company, 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Steele was already a combat veteran, with combat jumps into Italy and Sicily under his belt prior to D-Day.

During his landing, Steele's parachute became caught in the steeple of the church in the middle of the town square. Shot through the foot, Steele hung there for two hours pretending to be dead before the Germans noticed him and cut him down.

"There were some paratroopers who landed nearby, but they didn't help him because they thought he was dead. The Germans thought he was dead also, but they wanted whatever papers he had on him and that is when they discovered that he was alive," said Patrick Bunel, a curator at the Airborne Museum here.

The German soldiers took him prisoner, but Steele was able to escape once tanks that had landed at Utah beach arrived. At approximately 4:30 a.m. Sainte Mere Eglise became the first town in France to be liberated. The fighting around the town continued until June 7, when the Germans were finally pushed back. Steele was awarded the Bronze Star for valor and the Purple Heart for his actions during the invasion.

"When I first saw it (the mannequin), I didn't know that it had actually happened," said Pfc. Cory Peppeard of the 230th Military Police Company, 18th Military Police Brigade, one of hundreds of U.S. servicemembers here to support this week's 65th anniversary commemoration of D-Day. "It's pretty impressive that he was able to survive that."

Sainte Mere Eglise secured Steele a place in history as a Soldier in the division that helped to liberate the town, but also as the paratrooper who landed on the church. It was a scene that would be recreated 18 years later in the 1962 movie, "The Longest Day," in which Steele was portrayed by the actor Red Buttons.

Their actions here have also been captured in two stained glass windows in the church. One was designed in 1945 by a local artist named Paul Renaud, who was 14 years old when the paratroopers landed and 16 years old when he drew the sketch for a window made by Gabriel Loire in the village of Chartres.

It depicts the Virgin Mary and child above a burning Sainte Mere Eglise with paratroopers and planes around her. An inscription below the figures reads: "This stained glass was completed with the participation of Paul Renaud and Sainte Mere, for the memory of those who, with their courage and sacrifice, liberated Sainte Mere Eglise and France".

"My father worked with the parish to come up with an idea to replace the original window, which had been destroyed," said Henri Jean Renaud, whose father was the mayor of Saint Mere Eglise at the time. Renaud was 10 years old when the paratroopers landed.

A second window depicts Saint Michael, the patron saint of paratroopers. The 82nd Airborne Division, the lion of Normandy, the Sainte Mere Eglise insignia, and symbols for each of the combat jumps made by the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II are also represented in the window.

The idea for the window began at the 25th anniversary of the jump and was donated by the veterans of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, in 1972. The same artist that made the first window also made the second. The inscription at the bottom reads: "To the memory of those who through their sacrifice liberated Sainte Mere Eglise."

Given that a bleak outlook is one of the few things Americans of all political persuasions seem to share these days, a few rays of sunshine from gray northern France are not just refreshing but inspiring.

Arhoul has an infectious passion for the story of American life in the years between the world wars. He recounted with exuberance his journey around the United States last fall as he searched out items to borrow from various American institutions.

Silent films became talkies. Black and white became color. Jazz came into its own. California surfing culture gained prominence. The automobile industry contributed to economic prosperity. Monopoly was born.

But this period also saw the apex of the second Ku Klux Klan, the Tulsa race massacre, and murders of the Osage in Oklahoma. And then came the Wall Street crash of 1929, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl.

Through this collection of objects and videos, audio clips from presidential speeches, war propaganda, and jewelry worn by famous actresses, Arhoul says, in words that lose some of their French poetry when translated to English,

Enter Kl\u00E9ber Arhoul. The chief executive of the M\u00E9morial de Caen and general curator of its new exhibition, The Dawn of the American Century (1919\u20131944), Arhoul waxed eloquent enough in our recent interview that I had a surprising desire to wave an American flag around the Normandy museum\u2019s window-lined, high-ceilinged caf\u00E9 where we met. I wanted to gather up the Americans among that day\u2019s museum visitors and tell them not to give up hope. We\u2019ve been here before! All is not lost! At least that\u2019s what Arhoul says about us.

Part of what first attracted me to the exhibition was the thought of marking D-Day\u2019s eightieth anniversary by exploring my native country\u2019s history through the eyes of my adopted country. I\u2019ve lived in France for over a decade, but this is the first big D-Day anniversary since I took up residence in Normandy.

And this is the last big anniversary for which we\u2019ll have significant numbers of firsthand participants, veterans and civilians alike, present to lend gravity to the speeches delivered by heads of state.

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