Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division take a rare moment of rest in a Normandy apple orchard, its blossoms in full bloom, during the campaign that followed the D-Day landings of June 1944. Such orchards, part of the region's dense hedgerow (bocage) terrain, provided both cover and a brief pastoral respite from the fighting that raged across the Cotentin Peninsula and beyond. Project: 218250