The Canopy — Digital Download

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A parachute and an effigy hang from the church steeple at Sainte-Mère-Église, where Private John Steele of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment caught his canopy on the roof in the early hours of 6 June 1944 and hung there. The mannequin belongs to the town; the Airborne Museum keeps its uniform and helmet fresh. It comes down in December and goes back up in January.

Sainte-Mère-Église, Manche, Normandy. August 2026. Fujifilm X-T2, 18–55mm.

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Part of Normandy, 1944 — three days on the same coast, seven years apart.