Normandy 1944
Douve / Dead Man's Corner sector
Terrain
GuideNormandy 1944
AreaCarentan & the causeways
TypeTerrain
Time to allow20 min
LocationGeneral area only
GPS49.32813, -1.26845
The story
Waterways, marshes, bridges and raised roads dictated movement. Possession of a junction or causeway mattered far beyond its size on a map.
What to look for
Do not rush. Low wet fields, constrained routes, few alternatives.
Nearby sites
- Dead Man's Corner / D-Day Experience · under 1 km
- St-Côme-du-Mont · under 1 km
- Purple Heart Lane / Carentan causeway · 2 km
- Angoville-au-Plain church · 3 km
- Carentan · 3 km
- Bloody Gulch / Hill 30 sector · 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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