ANGOVILLE-AU-PLAIN Manche - 4 km north of Carentan
 Confused fighting for the 506th PIR
On June 6, 1944, the mission of the 2nd battalion of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment was to take Saint-Côme-du-Mont. In the night of June 5-6, lieutenant colonel Ballard paras jumped on the Drop Zone D in Angoville-au-Plain. The officer mustered 150 men and tried to seize the town of Les Droueries, where the Germans seemed entrenched. A medic post was settled in Angoville-au-Plain. While the Americans were kept in check in Les Droueries, the German parachutists took again Angoville-au-Plain; the town was taken and seized again several times. The Germans entered Vierville on June 7 in the morning. On June 8, colonel Sink, commander of the 506th PIR gave order to take back Vierville. The Americans continued their counter-attack, and overcame the German defences in Angoville-au-Plain; in the afternoon colonel Sink transfered his headquarters in the town.
  
     
   
 
 
 

501st PIR medics monument
 This monument is dedicated to medics Robert E. Wright and Kenneth J. Moore of 2nd batallion, 501st PIR of 101st Airborne. In Angoville-au-Plain church they took care of numerous wounded soldiers and a child, during the fightings of the Landing first days.
 Situation : coming from Carentan take the D913 road toward Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, take to the right, place in front of the church
 
   
  Stained glass windows WRIGHT et MOORE, and American parachutists - TOCCOA stele
 Two stained glass windows commemorate the 101st Airborne Division, the first one is dedicated to medics Robert E. WRIGHT and Kenneth J. MOORE of the 2nd Battalion of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (101st Airborne Division). The second one honoured the American parachutists.
In front the church a stele - place TOCCOA - remembers the place where the 501st PIR was born in November 1942 in Toccoa Georgia.
Situation : Stained glass windows in the church, stele in front of the church
   
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INTERESTING WEB SITES
Manche departmental tourism office web site
http://www.manchetourisme.com/
Personal web site about Combined Operations Special Troops
http://www.combinedops.com/Combined_Ops_index.htm
Personal web site about D-day
 http://www.6juin1944.com/
Personal web site about the 101st Airborne Division
http://www.101airborneww2.com/
 
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