John Steele (paratrooper)
Private John M. Steele (1912–1969) was the American paratrooper made famous in the movie, The Longest Day who landed in Sainte-Mère-Église, the first village in Normandy liberated by the Americans on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
John Steele was born on November 29, 1912 in Metropolis, Illinois.
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“If I never praised or flattered, I never belyed [sic] or contradicted them.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)