You would drive past the church in the
small village of Angoville-au-Plain and think
nothing of it; just another 12th century rel-
ic that has served the town's residents for
centuries. You would never know that here,
over the course of the first three days of the
Battle of Normandy, occurred such a story
of heroism that it is remembered to this day.
Robert Wright and Ken Moore parachut-
ed into Angoville-au-Plain with the 101st
Airborne Unit the morning of June 6th as
unarmed medics, and quickly found them-
selves in the middle of heavy fighting in
the small town just inland from Utah
Beach. Spying the church, they de-
cided to set it up as an aid station,
and began to treat the numerous
wounded soldiers and townspeo-
ple injured in the fighting with
only the bandages and morphine
they had on hand.
Over the course of three days,
they cared for 80 wounded in-
cluding two local girls, Lucienne
