chaufty managed to bail out of the aircraft, but his parachute didn't work. marie's father found his body in a field not far from her home. she remembers it like it was yesterday. paul chaufty, giving his life on the same day marie's village was liberated. now, 80 years later, marie and her daughter welcome chaufty's family for the very first time. >> i think it's amazing that marie wanted to have this ceremony. she wanted, i think she didn't want to pass on without having it happen that paul was memorialized here. >> reporter: saunders and her family getting the chance to see for themselves where her great uncle died. back in the center of town, the entire village come out to show their gratitude and teaching saunders and her family about their own history. >> well, what i knew growing up was simply that he was a pilot in the united states army air force and that he was shot down over france in 1944. >> reporter: covered in a parachute and unveiled for the first time, chaufty's name etched into a plaque. >> to be able to have come here and feel like we have