Charles Carré and the German paratroopers at the May 8 ceremonies

Charles Carré, a veteran of the 28th division, participated in the ceremonies of Vierville-sur-Mer and then Mandeville-en-Bessin on a Tuesday. Aged 88, he was the oldest guest at the meal then shared with Mandeville’s older residents.

The newspaper, which presents him as a native of New Jersey, recalls his landing in Vierville on June 22, 1944, his first meeting with a Frenchman in Bricqueville, then his fighting in Cerisy-la-Forêt and Villedieu-les-Poêles. He had participated in the Champs-Élysées parade on August 29, 1944. Returning regularly to the families he met in 1944, this great traveler easily exchanged in French with his hosts.

A second part of the cut relates the Franco-German celebration of May 8. Nearly twenty delegations of parish veterans had gathered at the church under the aegis of Monsignor Metzeder and Father Hugue, according to the printed names.

While staying in the region, the 262nd Parachute Battalion of Zweibrücken had been invited by Claude de Ligny, President of the Veterans of Trévières, to attend the religious service and the ceremony commemorating the end of the Second World War. The cut recalled that in Germany May 8 was commemorated as liberation from Nazism.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The names "Metzeder" and "Hugue" are those of this cut; the other article on the ceremony names the chaplain Bernward Mezger. These different spellings are not silently merged. The annotation indicates Ouest France, 9/5/12.

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