The next day Carentan fell to the 101st in the Battle of Carentan. It managed to cross the flooded Douve River using a few causeways passing through the flooded fields. This job was tasked to the 101st Airborne, who had landed in the area and had been conducting raids against inland targets, such as artillery emplacements, and securing and cutting off the area from German reinforcements.īy June 9, the 101st Airborne had reorganized sufficiently from the haphazard scattering of its units. In the immediate aftermath of the landings, the priority for the Allies at Utah Beach was to link up with the Allied landings further east. 4th Infantry Division landed on Utah Beach shortly after dawn with few casualties, and began staging for a move against the fortified port of Cherbourg, a port critical to future Allied operations. VII Corps would advance from Utah Beach, the right (west) flank of the Allied forces separated from the landings at Omaha and the other beachheads by the Douve River. Although the landings were scattered, they nevertheless secured most of the routes by which the U.S.
82nd Airborne and 101st Airborne divisions landed at the base of the Cotentin Peninsula. In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the U.S.
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