Normandy 1944
Landing/scatter area — Winters
Easy Company
GuideNormandy 1944
AreaUtah Beach & the drop zones
TypeEasy Company
Time to allow20 min
LocationGeneral area only
GPS49.40800, -1.32330
The story
Winters's probable landing sector west of town, not a surveyed touchdown point. He came down separated from his company and without his weapon.
What to look for
Stand quietly and imagine the same fields in darkness. The absence of a monument is part of the experience.
Nearby sites
- Sainte-Mère-Église · under 1 km
- Airborne Museum, Sainte-Mère-Église · under 1 km
- Landing/scatter area — Sticks 68–71 sector · under 1 km
- La Fière Bridge & Causeway · 3 km
- Lt. Thomas Meehan / Stick 66 C-47 Memorial · 4 km
- Azeville Battery · 6 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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