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were unopposed. Individuals of III./1058, in heavy combat for two days, had been withdrawing without orders during the day, putting the defense in danger of collapse. As a result, Otl. von der Heydte ordered II./FJR6 to pull out to the west, cross the river, and move towards
Carentan along the railroad embankment, demolishing the railroad bridge as they did. Although mop-up attacks captured the 6th's Fallschirmjäger's regimental train of 40 carts, most of the defenders escaped, blowing up the second of the four causeway bridges and a portion of the railroad embankment in the process.
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1211:, was badly dispersed by the clouds, then subjected to intense antiaircraft fire for ten miles (16 km). Three of the 81 C-47s were lost before or during the jump. One, piloted by First Lieutenant Marvin F. Muir of the 439th Troop Carrier Group, caught fire. Muir held the aircraft steady while the men jumped, then died when the plane crashed immediately afterward, for which he was awarded the
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1893:. An attack by the 502nd PIR across the causeway was stymied by a bridge obstacle and heavy resistance that was only overcome the next morning by a bayonet charge and hand-to-hand combat. After fruitlessly attempting to repel the Americans with counterattacks on June 11, FJR6 withdrew on the night of June 11–12, short on ammunition. Carentan was captured the morning of June 12.
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Division had already seized the exit hours before. The 3rd Battalion of the 501st PIR, flown by the 435th TCG, was also assigned to jump onto DZ C, however it was partly scattered. BG Taylor, jumping from the lead aircraft of the 435th, landed on the DZ and assessed the situation and decided to take over the mission of securing the exits. An ad hoc
1333:(Company C of the 506th PIR) led an additional 70 paratroops to Holdy and enveloped the position. The combined force then continued on to seize Sainte Marie-du-Mont. A platoon of the 502nd PIR, left to hold the battery, destroyed three of the four guns before Colonel Sink could send four jeeps to save them for the 101st Airborne Division's use.
1191:. Cole's group moved during the night from near Saint Mère Église to the Varreville battery, then continued on and captured Exit 3 at 07:30. They held the position during the morning until relieved by troops moving inland from Utah Beach. Both commanders found Exit 4 covered by German artillery fire and Cassidy recommended to the
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rest of the division. The loss of much radio equipment during the drops exacerbated his control problems. Major
General Taylor made destroying the Douve bridges the division's top priority and delegated the task to Colonel Sink, who issued orders for the 1st Battalion, 401st GIR to lead three battalions south the next morning.
1261:, collected 150 troops and captured the main objective, the la Barquette lock, by 04:00. After establishing defensive positions, Colonel Johnson went back to the drop zone and assembled another 100 men, including Allen's group, to reinforce the bridgehead. Despite naval gunfire support from the cruiser
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Infantry Division's III./1058-Grenadier was virtually destroyed, as was its 191st Artillery Regiment, although some of its units were destroyed by elements of the U.S. 4th Division. Engagements near the beach exits between the 101st and 919. Grenadier-Regiment produced several hundred casualties.
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as support, Company D advanced at 1830 two miles (3 km) to the battalion objective, the crossroads below Saint CĂ´me-du-Mont linking it with
Carentan. However the tank was destroyed there by a direct hit, where the hull and a dead crewman hanging out of the tank gave the intersection the nickname
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to remain below German radar coverage. Once over water all lights except formation lights were turned off, and these were reduced to their lowest practical intensity. At a stationary marker boat code-named "Hoboken" and carrying a Eureka beacon, they made a left turn to the southeast and flew between
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The 1st/401st GIR, fighting its first action, lagged behind the paratroop units and got into a day-long battle at Basse-Addeville. At 1600 it was ordered to reverse to the west, pass through the gap between the 501st and 506th, and take the town. The 506th also sent patrols forward and both advances
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Battalions 506th PIR spread out in skirmish line in the dark to move through the hedgerows but were subjected to persistent sniper fire. They covered the twisting dirt road from Culoville to Vierville—a distance of one mile—in four hours. Pushing on beyond the town,
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Airborne Division had accomplished its most important mission of securing the beach exits, but had a tenuous hold on positions near the Douve River, over which the Germans could still move armored units. The three groups clustered there had tenuous contact with each other but none with the
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The entangled units reorganized with the companies of the 506th ordered to take up a north-south defensive line in front of the village along the
Vierville road. The 3rd/501st passed to the left and reached the Carentan highway by 0900. Its commander believed the garrison was withdrawing and turned
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The 506th's battalions were so exhausted that instead of attacking through the hedgerows, they shifted to the left to follow the road from
Vierville. Company D, as it had the day before, raced unopposed to Dead Man's Corner and from there up the road toward Saint CĂ´me-du-Mont. The 1st/401st, unable
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The multi-battalion reconnaissance toward Saint CĂ´me-du-Mont jumped off at 0430 as planned, but without the full-strength glider infantry battalion, which had not yet come up. The town was defended by a line of troops of the 3rd Battalion 1058th Grenadier Regiment (III./1058) in prepared positions
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The 2nd Battalion, much of which had jumped too far west near Sainte Mère Église, eventually assembled near Foucarville at the northern edge of the 101st Airborne Division's objective area. It fought its way to the hamlet of le Chemin near the Houdienville causeway by mid-afternoon, but found that
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During the morning, the 1st Battalion of FJR6 cut across country in an attempt to reach their own lines. They were observed by Col. Sink during the morning but not identified as enemy in time to bring them under fire. In the afternoon the German paratroopers crossed the marsh and encountered both
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on June 6. The first wave, inbound to Drop Zone A (the northernmost), was not surprised by the cloud bank and maintained formation, but navigating errors and a lack of Eureka signal caused the first error. Although the 2nd Battalion, 502nd PIR was dropped as a compact unit, it jumped on the wrong
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The third wave also encountered severe flak, losing six aircraft. The troop carriers still made an accurate drop, placing 94 of 132 sticks on or close to the drop zone, but part of the DZ was covered by pre-registered German machine gun and mortar fire that inflicted heavy casualties before many
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The surviving battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Robert A. Ballard, gathered 250 troopers and advanced toward Saint CĂ´me-du-Mont to complete his mission of destroying the highway bridges over the Douve. Less than half a mile from his objective at les Droueries he was stopped by elements of
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and achieved another objective by seizing two foot bridges near la Porte at 04:30 and crossed to the east bank. When their ammunition drew low after knocking out several machine gun emplacements, the small force withdrew to the west bank. It doubled in size overnight as stragglers came in, and
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Sink renewed the attack at 0445 with an artillery preparation on the forward German positions. He attacked on a three-battalion front, with the full-strength 1st/401st GIR on the left, the 3rd/501st in the center, and the 506th PIR on the right in column. Because of the hedgerow terrain, each
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appeared. They moved forward another mile, with Germans constantly infiltrating in behind them, before a sniper killed the commander of the 1st Battalion 506th, Lt Col. William L. Turner. Attacks to clear the flanking hedgerows were thrown back and the advance stalled. Using a newly arrived
1052:); the mission involved a total of 432 aircraft in ten serials. The planes, individually numbered within a serial by "chalk numbers" (literally numbers chalked on the airplanes to help paratroopers board the correct one), were organized into flights in trail, in a close pattern called
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Regiment (FJR6), which had dug in on the north and east since returning from Sainte Mère Eglise during the night. Its 1st Battalion was in Sainte Marie-du-Mont but cut off from contact with the main body. As the battle developed during the day, the commander of FJR6, Oberstleutnant
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returned from their foray at Pouppeville. Taylor had control of about 2,500 of his 6,600 men, most of which were in the vicinity of the 506th's command post at Culoville, with the thin defense line west of Saint Germain-du-Varreville, or the division reserve at Blosville. Two
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to overrun German positions in front of them, attempted to flank them on its right. The effect was, that after destroying the German defenders at les Droueries who had held up the division for two days, the 3rd/501st in the center was pinched out of the attack.
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drop zone, while its commander, Lieutenant Colonel Steve A. Chappuis, came down virtually alone on the correct drop zone. Chappuis and his stick captured the coastal battery soon after assembling, but found that it had already been dismantled after an air raid.
1852:. The 3rd/501st was then counterattacked by elements of FJR6 behind them. The battalion cleared the high ground behind Dead Man's Corner and established a strong east-west defensive line from which it repelled five strong counterattacks between 0930 and 1600.
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battalion attacked with two companies on line, platoons in column. 1st/401st was to strike for Dead Man's Corner, 3rd/501st for the Carentan highway just below the village, and the 506th directly into Saint CĂ´me-du-Mont. The artillery would provide a
1325:, Colonel Sink, commanding the 506th PIR, received word that a second battery of four guns had been discovered at Holdy, a manor between his command post and Sainte Marie-du-Mont, and the defenders had a force of some 70 paratroopers pinned down.
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Col. Johnson's and Capt. Shettle's pockets. After brief firefights with both at mid-afternoon, in which 90-100 were killed and a like number wounded, all but 25 of the 800-man battalion surrendered, 250 to Shettle and 350 to Johnson.
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1056:: three planes in triangular vee's arranged in a larger vee of nine planes. The serials were scheduled over the drop zones at 6-minute intervals. The paratroopers were organized into "sticks", a planeload of 15 to 18 men.
1237:, reached the Pouppeville exit at 0600. After a six-hour house-clearing battle with elements of the German 1058th Grenadier Regiment, the group secured the exit shortly before 4th Division troops arrived to link up.
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shifting every four minutes. In all the 65th Armored Field Artillery Battalion fired 2,500 rounds of 105 mm ammunition into the defenders of Saint Come-du-Mont in the first 90 minutes of fighting.
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battalion III./1058 Grenadier-Rgt. Another group of 50 men, assembled by the regimental S-3, Major Richard J. Allen, attacked the same area from the east at Basse-Addeville but was also pinned down.
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1130:, numerous factors reduced the accuracy of the drops. A solid cloud bank over the western half of the 22-mile (35 km) peninsula at penetration altitude (1500 feet MSL), an opaque
1822:"Dead Man's Corner". Company A followed Company D to the outskirts of Saint CĂ´me-du-Mont, but both were recalled just before midnight when no other units could consolidate on them.
1215:. Despite the opposition, the 506th's 1st Battalion (the original division reserve) was dropped accurately on DZ C, landing 2/3 of its sticks and the 506th's regimental commander,
985:), capture two footbridges spanning the Douve at la Porte opposite Brévands, destroy the highway bridges over the Douve at Sainte-Come-du-Mont, and secure the Douve River valley.
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1996:D-Day : U.S. Airborne in Cotentin Peninsula
1155:101st Airborne drop pattern, D-Day, 6 June 1944.
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2521:Primary articles on the Battle of Normandy,
2392:. Washington: Center for Air Force History.
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2191:"Chapter 9 The V Corps Lodgment (7–18 June)"
2145:. Carentan Historical Center. Archived from
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216:Estimated 4,500 killed, wounded, and missing
2813:American logistics in the Normandy campaign
1982:depicts the 101st's area on the right half.
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3010:Weather forecasting for Operation Overlord
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2233:"The Battle For Carentan (8–15 June)""
1955:History of the 101st Airborne Division
1927:American airborne landings in Normandy
1250:(XO) of the 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR.
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917:American airborne landings in Normandy
167:65th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
31:American airborne landings in Normandy
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2272:"Chapter VIII The Sixth of June"
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927:, the assault portion of the
923:. It was the opening step of
915:on June 6, 1944, part of the
2754:
2750:
2479:"Battle to Control Carentan"
2001:
1772:SOURCE: D-Day Etat des Lieux
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1082:11, assigned to Drop Zone C.
913:U.S. 101st Airborne Division
176:6th Fallschirmjager Regiment
49:U.S. 101st Airborne Division
7:
2830:(Pipe-Line Under The Ocean)
2466:and the basis for his book
2408:Gordon A. Harrison (1951).
2117:Distinguished Service Cross
1920:
1891:U.S. 29th Infantry Division
1870:
1213:Distinguished Service Cross
991:U.S. 82nd Airborne Division
964:
10:
3052:
1874:
1195:that it not use the exit.
1161:British Double Summer Time
975:Saint-Martin-de-Varreville
961:troops who landed by sea.
2967:Allied forces in Normandy
2929:
2893:
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2683:
2533:
2481:John McManus, History Net
2462:, an official history by
1902:U.S. 2nd Armored Division
1793:
1786:Dead Man's Corner, June 7
1123:, code-named "Muleshoe".
1102:at 500 feet (150 m)
1068:439th Troop Carrier Group
313:Combined Bomber Offensive
265:
201:
186:
159:
128:
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55:
40:
28:
23:
16:WWII US parachute mission
2053:"The Airborne Assault".
1802:Friedrich von der Heydte
154:Friedrich von der Heydte
2441:Utah Beach to Cherbourg
2231:Utah Beach to Cherbourg
2056:Utah Beach to Cherbourg
1307:of the 506th PIR under
998:709th Infantry Division
165:101st Airborne Division
2947:D-Day naval deceptions
2473:German Order of Battle
2349:Warren, J. C. (1956).
1863:
1156:
1083:
1030:
957:, reinforced by 2,300
775:Air and Sea operations
568:Anglo-Canadian Sector
447:Anglo-Canadian Sector
129:Commanders and leaders
2388:Martin Wolfe (1993).
1858:
1193:4th Infantry Division
1154:
1062:
1011:
807:Supporting operations
202:Casualties and losses
2717:(Canada, Poland, US)
2670:(Canada, Poland, UK)
2664:(Canada, Poland, UK)
2415:Cross-Channel Attack
2326:on 16 September 2009
2277:Cross Channel Attack
2270:Harrison, Gordon A.
2197:Cross-Channel Attack
2189:Harrison, Gordon A.
2067:on 16 September 2009
1979:Cross Channel Attack
1814:746th Tank Battalion
1810:Sherman medium tanks
1507:1st Pathfinder Prov.
1484:1st Pathfinder Prov.
1461:1st Pathfinder Prov.
1436:1st Pathfinder Prov.
1209:Sainte Marie-du-Mont
1070:, which carried the
1016:Dwight D. Eisenhower
932:invasion of Normandy
259:(Battle of Normandy)
171:746th Tank Battalion
2978:Operation Bodyguard
2972:Liberation of Paris
2410:"The Sixth of June"
2288:on 26 February 2014
2209:on 26 February 2014
2143:"Dead Man's Corner"
2039:Lieutenant Colonel
1942:Harrison C. Summers
1561:RAF Greenham Common
1537:RAF Greenham Common
1395:Troop carrier Group
1364:) had reported in.
1189:Beuzeville-au-Plain
1181:Harrison C. Summers
1004:Mission description
3036:Operation Overlord
3005:Rommel's asparagus
2989:Operation Jedburgh
2834:Operation Chastity
2109:lieutenant colonel
1972:2012-10-30 at the
1884:double envelopment
1877:Battle of Carentan
1864:
1777:Saint CĂ´me-du-Mont
1748:Co C 326th Engr Bn
1170:Patrick F. Cassidy
1157:
1128:Cotentin Peninsula
1084:
1039:Sainte-Mère-Église
1031:
948:Cotentin Peninsula
936:Operation Overlord
602:Normandy massacres
491:Operation Chastity
255:Operation Overlord
35:Operation Overlord
3018:
3017:
2983:Operation Dragoon
2658:(UK 6th Airborne)
2315:Utah to Cherbourg
2159:. Also Marshall,
2115:were awarded the
2111:. Both Patch and
2019:. Air University.
1830:Round two, June 8
1819:Stuart light tank
1773:
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1768:
1345:Anthony McAuliffe
1342:Brigadier General
1331:Knut H. Raudstein
1259:Howard R. Johnson
1248:executive officer
1235:Maxwell D. Taylor
925:Operation Neptune
903:
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759:Mantes-Gassicourt
423:Normandy landings
220:
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142:Maxwell D. Taylor
91:
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2991:(France, UK, US)
2985:(France, UK, US)
2957:Hobart's Funnies
2911:Hillman Fortress
2823:Mulberry harbour
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2749:Landing points (
2727:Merville Battery
2596:(Deception plan)
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1948:Band of Brothers
1862:, 8–12 June 1944
1798:
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1746:3rd Bn 506th PIR
1698:1st Bn 501st PIR
1671:3rd Bn 501st PIR
1648:2nd Bn 506th PIR
1623:1st Bn 506th PIR
1575:1st Bn 502nd PIR
1552:3rd Bn 502nd PIR
1527:2nd Bn 502nd PIR
1513:RAF North Witham
1490:RAF North Witham
1467:RAF North Witham
1443:RAF North Witham
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1309:First Lieutenant
1054:"vee's of vee's"
1020:First lieutenant
942:jumped from 443
534:La Haye-du-Puits
519:American Sector
427:American Sector
373:Merville Battery
353:Airborne assault
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