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FOUCARVILLE/BEUZEVILLE-AU-PLAIN
Manche
- 15 km north of Carentan
The American parachutists held to the ground
On
6 June 1944 in Normandy, the 502nd Parachutist Regiment of the 101st
Airborne Division had to capture the battery of Saint-Martin-de-Varreville,
and to control two exits of Utah Beach. Droped far away from their
target, the 502nd Regiment paras walked more than two hours to reach
their objective. They discovered the battery had been destroyed by
the allied bombings. N°4 exit of Utah Beach was under German shelling,
N°3 exit was taken at daybreak. The Commander of the 1st Battalion
set up his headquarter in Saint-Martin-de-Varreville. In the afternoon
the Americans destroyed a German column near Beuzeville-au-Plain,
before liberating the town. Entrenched in Foucarville, the parachutists
resisted all day long to German assaults, and made many prisoners.
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War prisoners camp stele 
439th TCG and 506th PIR monument
