Back in Normandy to commemorate D-Day
Above: From this man Clancy received a nail and a certificate (see below|). The nail is form the Hightown Stables, The Green in Aldbourne where Easy Company was before Operation Market Garden. These stables are dismantled and re-erected in Toccoa. Certain items not fit to be shipped were made available as souvenirs.
Left: Elroy Huwe (501/101 A/B Div) - above Philip Reed - right unknown.

Above: Credentials were needed to be allowed at the official commemorations. Left for escorting a veteran and right for family. The middle is the background of both.

Barbara (above right) from the Pentagon had arranged our credentials.
To collect the credentials we had to go from Ste. Mére Eglise to Omaha Beach. With a normal car we had to follow diversions or were not allowed to pass. Dutch re-enactors offered us to bring us with their perfectly restored cars. They were allowed to pass. Thanks guys!
This French inhabitant of Ste.Mére Eglise came back several times to express his gratitude for what Clancy and his comrades did for them 60 years ago. His expression tell's it all.
At the exhibit Clancy met a veteran from the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82 Airborne Div. who landed near Chef du Pont
Click here for his story.
Clancy was, like all the other veterans, asked for his autograph or to answer questions continuously. In Ste. Mere Eglise it even was necessary to take a chair to sit on because there were so many people in line, waiting for an autograph. Though he found time to phone his wife. (right)

Above: At the square in Ste.Mére Eglise, Clancy met one of the other Band of Brothers veterans: Darrell 'Shifty' Powers.

Right: 60 years ago Clancy had to approach Ste. Mére Eglise from the meadows around the village. Now he had to do it again because we had to leave our car outside the village. It must have given him an odd feeling that he, one of the liberators, not walking very well, was not allowed to enter the village by car.

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