A group of American Nurses land at Normandy approximately a week after D-Day. They are accompanied and assisted by several GIs.



Nurses are coming ashore

Maxwell Davenport "Max" Taylor (August 26, 1901 – April 19, 1987).
He took part in the division's parachute jump into Normandy on June 6, 1944, the first Allied General to land in France on D-Day, June 6 1944. He commanded the 101st Airborne Division for the rest of the war, including Operation Market Garden in The Netherlands.

Commanding Gen. 101st Airborne

An American soldier, Private Fred Linden and a little boy from the Norman town of Trévières, France, make quick friends. 1944.