Hi Leonard, You are of course correct. I remembered seeing the effigy on the steeple, knew decoys had been used and somehow mixed both events into one. Regards Stuart. Son of Driver I.E. Woolley, RASC Gold Beach D-Day and Europe, WWII ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leonard Cizewski" <cizewski@yahoo.com> To: <WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [WORLD WAR II] Paratrooper Dummy: Kid's Question About WW2 > Hi Stuart, > > That sounds like the church in Ste Mere Eglise and was > a live paratrooper not one of the dummies. > > From the website: > > http://www.normandybattlefields.com/img31_mere_eglise.htm > > "Private John Steele's parachute caught on the > steeple. He survived by feigning death until the town > was occupied in the daylight hours. His parachute > effigy still hangs on the steeple." > > Yours, > > Leonard H. Cizewski > Son of the late PFC Felix A. Cizewski, Signal Corps, > Europe, WW2 > > --- STUART WOOLLEY <stuart.woolley1@btinternet.com> > wrote: > >> They have one on display in Normandy which got stuck >> up a church steeple and >> the Germans shot at it > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== > We are an international list! Please, always tell the list what country > your ancestor is from. This helps all of us, especially you! If you give > dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For > example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >