Carentan
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Carentan is a small rural town near the north-eastern base of the French Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy in north-western France, with a population of about 6,000. It is a former commune in the Manche
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Carentan church
French civilians erected this silent tribute to an American soldier who fell in the effort to liberate France from German occupation, June 17, 1944
Utah Beach
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Utah, commonly known as Utah Beach, was the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, during World War II. The we
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…of Carentan-les-Marais. The town was a strategic early goal of the World War II landings as capturing the town was necessary to link the lodgements at Utah Beach and Omaha Beach which were divided by the Douve river estuary (nearby fields were flooded by the Germans up to the town's outskirts). The town was also…
US soldiers landing on Utah
Nevada fires upon shore.
C-47 Skytrains with paratroops above a landing craft.
Utah landings, planned (center/right) and actual (left). North: lower right