Caumont lEventé

One week after D-day, it was still time for the consolidation of the Allied beach heads. In the area of Omaha Beach, the next objective for the 1st US Infantry Division "Big Red One" was to capture Caumont l'Eventé, a …

1944-06-12

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One week after D-day, it was still time for the consolidation of the Allied beach heads. In the area of Omaha Beach, the next objective for the 1st US Infantry Division "Big Red One" was to capture Caumont l'Eventé, a village on a small height at about 22km from the seaside. The infantrymen of the 26th Infantry Regiment, with the support of the Sherman tanks of the 743th Tank Battalion, attacked in the morning of the 12th June. They were repelled on a first time by a German counter-attack made by infantry and tanks of the 2.Panzer Division newly arrived in the battlefield. Finally, on the 13th June in the morning, Caumont l'Eventé was in Allied hands.

Caumont l'Eventé, France

The Battle of Saint-Lô is one of the three conflicts in the Battle of the Hedgerows, which took place between July 7–19, 1944, just before Operation Cobra. Saint-Lô had fallen to Germany in 1940, and, after the Invasion of Normandy, the Americans targeted the city, as it served as a strategic crossroads. American bombardments caused heavy damage and a high number of casualties, which resulted in the martyr city being called "The Capital of Ruins", popularized in a report by Samuel Beckett.

Wikipedia: Battle of Saint-Lô

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