Summary The Lost Paratroopers of Graignes - Normandy 1944 With Stephen G. Rabe Professor Stephen G. Rabe joins us today to talk about the dramatic events that took place in the village of Graignes, Normandy between 6 and 16 June 1944. Rabe's father, S/Sgt. Rene E. Rabe, a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, participated in these dramatic events. On D-Day, when transport planes dropped paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions hopelessly off-target into marshy waters in northwestern France, the 900 villagers of Graignes welcomed them with open arms. These villagers - predominantly women - provided food, gathered intelligence, and navigated the floods to retrieve the paratroopers' equipment at great risk to themselves. When the attack by German forces on 11 June forced the overwhelmed paratroopers to withdraw, many made it to safety thanks to the help and resistance of the villagers. Stephen Rabe held the Ashbel Smith Chair in History at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he taught for forty years. He won three awards for distinguished teaching. He has written or edited twelve books, including John F. Kennedy: World Leader (2010) and The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America, 2nd ed. (2016). His Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism (1988) won the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. His new project, Kissinger and Latin America: Intervention, Diplomacy, and Human Rights has recently been published by Cornell University Press (2020).

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