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VII Corps received the Carentan assignment and assigned the 101st Airborne Division, closest to the city, 'the sole task of capturing Carentan.' Geography Д¬arentan is a port city located in Normandy, France, in the Douve River valley at the base of the Cotentin Peninsula. operations the joining of the lodgments through Isigny and Carentan. Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, senior American ground commander, ordered the original tactical plan be changed to make the top priority of U.S. Eisenhower inspected Omaha on 7 June and ordered a 'concentrated effort' to make the linkup. Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Moreover, Allied intelligence believed that three German divisions were massing to drive a wedge between them. Merging the American beachheads at Utah and Omaha Beach was a D-Day objective of the amphibious forces but was not achieved because of heavy German resistance at Omaha.

The glider troopers landed by glider and ships on 6 and 7 June.

VII Corps during its primary mission of seizing the port of Cherbourg. The 101st Airborne Division paratroopers landed behind Utah Beach with the objective of blocking German reinforcements from attacking the flank of the U.S. On 6 June 1944, the Allies launched a massive and long-anticipated air and amphibious invasion of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord. Main article: Mission Albany Operation Overlord Initially successful, its attack was thrown back by Combat Command A (CCA) of the U.S. The 17th SS PzG Division counter-attacked the 101st Airborne on 13 June. A lack of ammunition forced the German forces to withdraw on 12 June. In the ensuing battle, the 101st forced passage across the causeway into Carentan on 10 and 11 June. The attacking 101st Airborne Division, landed by parachute on 6 June as part of the American airborne landings in Normandy, was ordered to seize Carentan. The 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, ordered to reinforce Carentan, was delayed by transport shortages and attacks by Allied aircraft. First Army from launching an attack towards Lessay-PГ©riers that would cut off the Cotentin Peninsula.Д¬arentan was defended by two battalions of FallschirmjГ¤ger-Regiment 6 (6th Parachute Regiment) of the 2nd FallschirmjГ¤ger-Division and two Ost battalions. The defending German force attempted to hold the town long enough to allow reinforcements en route from the south to arrive, prevent or delay the merging of the lodgments, and keep the U.S. beachheads ( Utah Beach and Omaha Beach) and establishment of a continuous defensive line against expected German counterattacks. The objective of the attacking American forces was consolidation of the U.S. The battle took place between 6 and 13 June 1944, on the approaches to and within the town of Carentan, France. The Battle of Carentan was an engagement in World War II between airborne forces of the United States Army and the German Wehrmacht during the Battle of Normandy.

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