Carentan

Carentan-les-Marais, FR

A strategically critical crossroads town whose capture was essential to linking Omaha and Utah beaches into a unified beachhead. From June 10–14, 1944, the **101st Airborne Division** fought house-to-house against the **6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment**, culminating in the Battle of Bloody Gulch — a German armored counterattack repulsed on June 13 by paratroopers with tank support.