Normandy 1944
Brécourt Manor battery area
Easy Company
The story
Winters led a small force against four gun positions: suppressive fire, movement by small groups, into the trench, guns taken in sequence. Four questions to answer on site — where is the covered approach? where can a base of fire suppress? how does the trench connect the guns? why attack sequentially, not frontally?
What to look for
Private property. Understand the geometry from legal viewpoints, not by standing on a supposed gun pit.
Nearby sites
- Easy Company / 506th Brécourt Memorial · under 1 km
- 2nd Battalion 506th CP — Le Grand Chemin · under 1 km
- Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument · under 1 km
- Sainte-Marie-du-Mont · 2 km
- Vierville (Cotentin) · 4 km
- Utah Beach Landing Museum · 4 km
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Easy Company: Normandy
A free field guide for your phone: the route, the maps and the stories built in, even with no signal. The places of the Normandy campaign of June–July 1944, following Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne, from the night drop and Brécourt Manor to Utah Beach and Carentan, with Omaha, Pointe du Hoc, the British and Canadian beaches and the best museums along the way.
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