Carentan (French pronunciation: [kaʁɑ̃'tɑ̃]) is a small rural town near the north-eastern base of the French Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy in north-western...
8 KB (821 words) - 10:34, 21 August 2024
The Battle of Carentan was an engagement in World War II between airborne forces of the United States Army and the German Wehrmacht during the Battle of...
31 KB (3,944 words) - 15:32, 25 June 2024
Operation Carentan and Operation Carentan II were security operations conducted during the Vietnam War by the U.S. 1st and 2nd Brigades, 101st Airborne...
9 KB (1,011 words) - 14:44, 22 October 2023
Carentan Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield, which is located near the commune of Carentan in the Normandy region of northern France...
5 KB (463 words) - 09:34, 10 February 2024
Band of Brothers (miniseries) (redirect from Carentan (Band of Brothers))
support of the landings at Utah beach, participated in the liberation of Carentan and again parachuted into action during Operation Market Garden. They also...
77 KB (5,899 words) - 23:39, 21 August 2024
Carentan-les-Marais (French pronunciation: [kaʁɑ̃tɑ̃ le maʁɛ]) is a commune in the department of Manche, northwestern France. Carentan-les-Marais is located...
6 KB (316 words) - 19:52, 25 August 2024
Château de Carentan was a castle in Carentan, Manche, France. A castle has existed at Carentan since the 11th century. The castle was besieged by Jean...
746 bytes (77 words) - 15:37, 12 February 2021
30 (U.S. Army designation), approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Carentan in Normandy, France, on June 13, 1944. It involved elements of the German...
9 KB (814 words) - 02:52, 30 May 2024
Winters wrestle him, and was replaced by Buck Compton. The capture of Carentan would allow the Americans to link Omaha and Utah beaches, providing access...
32 KB (3,492 words) - 02:39, 6 August 2024
temporary case of hysterical blindness following the fierce fight to capture Carentan. He recovered and was part of a patrol investigating a farmhouse a few...
9 KB (849 words) - 18:03, 14 August 2024
Gare de Carentan is a railway station serving the town Carentan, Manche department, Normandy, northwestern France. It is situated on the Mantes-la-Jolie–Cherbourg...
1 KB (80 words) - 22:15, 15 January 2024
northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Carentan-les-Marais. It was one of the least populated communes in Manche. It is...
3 KB (209 words) - 10:34, 21 August 2024
north-western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the commune Carentan-les-Marais. Communes of the Manche department Téléchargement du fichier...
1 KB (63 words) - 09:29, 21 August 2024
the south of Carentan. From there, led by Company E, the 2nd battalion of the 506th PIR (Band of Brothers) attacked north into Carentan at daylight as...
13 KB (1,491 words) - 10:50, 9 April 2024
The canton of Carentan-les-Marais (before March 2020: canton of Carentan) is an administrative division of the Manche department. Its borders were modified...
3 KB (198 words) - 08:14, 9 March 2023
machine gun nest with grenades before joining the rest of the division near Carentan. Sobel spent the remainder of the war as a staff officer in the 506th,...
15 KB (1,645 words) - 10:19, 25 July 2024
out. After that, they link up with Cole to secure a causeway leading to Carentan, a crossroad town linking Utah and Omaha beaches. Stuka bombers, however...
29 KB (3,118 words) - 07:54, 21 July 2024
Tam Kỳ Truong Cong Dinh Lima Site 85 Quyet Thang My Lai Massacre Walker Carentan Pegasus Cochise Green Toan Thang I Burlington Trail Scotland II Delaware...
288 KB (29,793 words) - 11:11, 27 August 2024
Mission Albany (section Carentan)
artillery battery, capture the Douve River lock at la Barquette (opposite Carentan), capture two footbridges spanning the Douve at la Porte opposite Brévands...
35 KB (4,172 words) - 08:32, 11 July 2024
establish beachheads at each of the five landing sites on the first day, but Carentan, Saint-Lô, and Bayeux remained in German hands. Caen, a major objective...
95 KB (11,154 words) - 13:52, 20 August 2024
Air Force to bomb the bridges. The Filthy Thirteen also helped capture Carentan. During Operation Market Garden, the Demolition Platoon was assigned to...
17 KB (1,933 words) - 06:53, 8 August 2024
Sanctuary season 3 (redirect from Carentan (Sanctuary))
continue. 44 18 "Carentan" Steven A. Adelson James Thorpe June 6, 2011 (2011-06-06) 0.92 Magnus' team and Declan travel to Carentan, Normandy to investigate...
53 KB (2,336 words) - 13:57, 21 April 2024
on 27 March after a short siege, and Kyriell continued onto French-held Carentan, which he reached on 12 April. Despite a number of small skirmishes, Clermont...
13 KB (1,425 words) - 16:43, 12 May 2024
exits off the beaches, and to establish crossings over the Douve river at Carentan to help the U.S. V Corps merge the two American beachheads. The assaulting...
57 KB (8,041 words) - 06:10, 20 June 2024
Company members and worked their way just south of their objective of Carentan. Later that day, Easy Company was given the task of silencing an artillery...
15 KB (1,320 words) - 23:00, 14 June 2024
Berlichingen. This action delayed the 17th SS Panzergrenadier's counterattack on Carentan, which was repulsed at the Battle of Bloody Gulch on June 13. After retaking...
14 KB (1,830 words) - 21:35, 6 July 2024
1st battalion of the 6th had been ordered to Sainte Marie-du-Mont from Carentan during the afternoon but arrived after dark. The 1st Company 919th Grenadier...
16 KB (1,911 words) - 16:23, 17 June 2024
to seize Caen on D-Day or to dig in short of the city. Caen, Bayeux and Carentan were not captured on D-Day and the Allies concentrated on linking the beachheads...
114 KB (15,107 words) - 09:47, 16 August 2024
Normandy, was ordered to seize Carentan. In the ensuing battle, the 101st forced passage across the causeway into Carentan on 10–11 June. A lack of ammunition...
132 KB (16,304 words) - 12:18, 28 July 2024
forces dug into fortified emplacements above the beaches. Caen, Cherbourg, Carentan, Falaise and other Norman towns endured many casualties in the Battle of...
50 KB (5,507 words) - 22:07, 29 August 2024