The village is best known for being the scene of a military engagement between the American 101st Airborne Division and the German Wehrmacht on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The village war memorial to commemorate the fallen of WW1, WW2 and the war in Indochina. The pink stone in the foreground is a Liberty Road km marker. La Voie de la Liberté is the commemorative way marking the route of the Allied forces from D-Day in June 1944. It starts in Sainte-Mère-Église and travels across Northern France to Metz and then northwards to end in Bastogne, on the border of Luxembourg and Belgium. At each of the 1,146 kilometres, there is a stone marker or 'Borne'.
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