The Call of Duty

During the day of June 8th, the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division assisted in the attack on St. Come du Mont. Their job was to destroy the four bridges that linked Carentan to the geninsula. It was one of their first assignments and they would find …

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During the day of June 8th, the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division assisted in the attack on St. Come du Mont. Their job was to destroy the four bridges that linked Carentan to the geninsula. It was one of their first assignments and they would find the German troops that they were to face a tough nut to crack. The G.I.s made significant progress, but tough German opposition, unexpected taskings. and their own inexperience kept them from seizing the bridges on their first day of combat. - Mark H Walker

E Of St Come Du Mont, France

The Normandy Landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France (and later western Europe) and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. The weather on D-Day was far from ideal, and the operation had to be delayed 24 hours; a further postponement would have meant a delay of at least two weeks, as the invasion planners had requirements for the phase of the moon, the tides, and the time of day that meant only a few days each month were deemed suitable. Adolf Hitler placed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in command of German forces and of developing fortifications along the Atlantic Wall in anticipation of an Allied invasion. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt placed Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower in command of Allied forces.

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