In the early hours of June 6, 1944, two young American medics with the 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" parachuted into France and soon found themselves trapped in a 12th-century Norman church in the small village of Angoville-au-Plain. Medics Robert Wright and Kenneth Moore provided first aid to the first casualties of D-Day while a savage battle raged outside between American and German forces.

In the early hours of June 6, 1944, two young American medics with the 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" parachuted into France and soon found themselves trapped in a 12th-century Norman church in the small village of Angoville-au-Plain. Medics Robert Wright and Kenneth Moore provided first aid to the first casualties of D-Day while a savage battle raged outside between American and German forces.