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On 6 June 1944, the US Army landed at Utah Beach and Omaha Beach in Normandy during Operation Overlord, and the D-Day landings allowed for the Allies to prepare for a push inlands, through the Wehrmacht defenses and the hedgerows. However, the German forces prepared for a counterattack against the Allies to drive them back into the sea, and the Americans found it imperative that the German-held town of Carentan be taken so that the Americans could have a foothold in Normandy from which to fight the Nazis. The US 101st Airborne Division would be given the responsibility of taking Carentan, while ground forces from the two beachheads assisted them.
Meanwhile, the Germans assembled an army in Carentan so that they could fight the Americans. The Germans had two battalions of Ostlegionen (Soviet Union prisoners of war pressed into the German military) in addition to some paratroopers, and they were also able to station a panzer battalion and assault guns at the front lines to fight against the Americans. |
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