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BREVANDS
Manche
- 10 km north of Carentan
The 506th PIR had to capture Carentan
On 6 June 1944, the mission assigned to 101st Airborne Division 506th
Regiment 3rd battalion was clear : capturing two bridges crossing
Carentan causeway, in order to isolate Utah Beach bridgehead. But
in the night of 5-6 June, the 3rd Battalion drop, under Lieutenant-colonel
Wolverton, turned into slaughter. Captain Shettle gathered about thirty
men in Angoville-au-Plain, and moved toward Brévands ; around
4:30 am the bridges were mined and a small bridgehead was set up on
the eastern bank. On 7 June, the Americans pushed back a powerful
counter-attack of the 6th German Parachutist Regiment under Lieutenant-colonel
von der Heydte. Captain Shettle group amounted to a hundred men. On
9 June, General Taylor gave order to take Carentan ; Colonel Sink
506th Regiment started the assault. Meanwhile, the 327th Glider Regiment
attacked Brévands hill ; on 10 June at dawn, the Americans
had repelled German troops out of Brévands.
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Allied troops stained glass window
