Normandy 1944
La Fière Bridge & Causeway
82nd Airborne battlefield
The story
Not an Easy action but indispensable context: control of the Merderet crossings produced some of the fiercest airborne fighting of the invasion. The causeway shows how flooded lowlands turned a road into a bottleneck.
What to look for
Study bridge, causeway and flood-plain geometry — the same problem returns on the approach to Carentan.
Plan your visit
Always open. Best early or late for low light.
Nearby sites
- Landing/scatter area — Winters · 3 km
- Landing/scatter area — Sticks 68–71 sector · 3 km
- Sainte-Mère-Église · 3 km
- Airborne Museum, Sainte-Mère-Église · 3 km
- Lt. Thomas Meehan / Stick 66 C-47 Memorial · 7 km
- Azeville Battery · 8 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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