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Title
Brécourt Manor
Description
After being dropped far from their designated DZ, Lt. Winters and a number of Easy men finally found their way to the battalion rally point at Le Grand Chemin, about three miles west of Utah Beach. There, Lt. Col. Strayer …
Source
Publisher
Date
1944-06-06
Scenario#
Comp14
Scenario Description
After being dropped far from their designated DZ, Lt. Winters and a number of Easy men finally found their way to the battalion rally point at Le Grand Chemin, about three miles west of Utah Beach. There, Lt. Col. Strayer ordered them to silence a battery of guns located in a field near Brecourt Manor, about 300 yards to the south. The battery was firing on the invasion forces coming ashore on Utah. Winters mustered what men he could of Easy Company along with a few other volunteers, a dozen in all, and moved out.
Location
Normandy, France
Battle Narrative
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.
Narrative Source
Combatants
American
Germany

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