Ewell's Charge

Carentan was the key to preventing a linkup between American forces from Utah and Omaha Beach. Taking Carentan, however, meant that St. Come du Mont and the road leading southfrom the causeway to the town would have to be won. The fight started on the morning of June 8th, focusing …

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Carentan was the key to preventing a linkup between American forces from Utah and Omaha Beach. Taking Carentan, however, meant that St. Come du Mont and the road leading southfrom the causeway to the town would have to be won. The fight started on the morning of June 8th, focusing on “Dead Man's Corner", so named because of a Stuart light tank brewed up by a German 88mm as the tank approached the corner. The German Fallschirmjagers attacked, pressing the Americans hard, and almost overrunning Colonel Ewell's 3rd Battalion, 501st PIR. At the most desperate moment, Ewell led his men on a long, flanking run that caught the Germans by surprise. Trapped between Ewell's flanking fire and a renewed onslaught by a platoon of Stuart light tanks. the Germans retreated. - Mark H. Walker & Bill Wilder

St. Come Du Mont, France

The U.S. airborne landings in Normandy were the first U.S. combat operations during Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy by the Western Allies on June 6, 1944, during World War II. Around 13,100 American paratroopers of the 82nd and 10ist Airborne Divisions made night parachute drops early on D-Day, June 6, followed by 3,937 glider troops flown in by day. As the opening maneuver of Operation Neptune the two American airborne divisions were delivered to the continent in two parachute and six glider missions.

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