Following up on Memorialized in Glass, here is a photo of Carl Beck with one of the brave medics, Robert Wright, who cared for Americans, Germans and locals in the Angoville au Plain church. In an interview on You Tube (posted by the Central Florida WWII Museum), Wright talks about collecting arms from every soldier, and not allowing anyone to use the bell tower as a look out. Likely for these reasons, the Germans left the church alone. Wright does say they received some friendly fire, however.
This is the area near where Carl Beck, 101st Airborne, should have landed. But, like many airmen on D-Day, he was dropped in the wrong place, and had to rely on a French family to help hide him while he waited for others to come into the area. Carl has returned to visit this family a number of times over the years.
In our last post, we talked about Mark "Sparky" Patterson's stained glass window memorials. One is here at this church, and another is being planned for a church near the La Fiere bridge. Anyone wishing to donate to this stained glass memorial project, please contact Mark at pathfinder.tours at yahoo dot com.
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