Normandy 1944
Carentan
Town · Timeline 13 & 15
GuideNormandy 1944
AreaCarentan & the causeways
TypeTown · Timeline 13 & 15
Time to allow1 h
LocationExact spot known
GPS49.30320, -1.24820
The story
The prize between the Utah and Omaha lodgements. Easy entered on the Route d'Auvers / Rue Holgate axis on 12 June and fought toward the railway, where Winters was wounded; the company was then billeted here in reserve 13–19 June.
What to look for
Walk the central streets rather than drive them.
Nearby sites
- Purple Heart Lane / Carentan causeway · 2 km
- Bloody Gulch / Hill 30 sector · 3 km
- Musée Mémorial de Bloody Gulch · 3 km
- Douve / Dead Man's Corner sector · 3 km
- Dead Man's Corner / D-Day Experience · 3 km
- Normandy Victory 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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