Word: carentan
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Dear Mom: We are camped in an orchard not far from Carentan that you've read about, Mom, and there are dairy cows grazing in our orchard and the peasants come right out in their wooden shoes and milk them, and Mom, one of the cows made fertilizer right where I put down my blankets. Golly, Mom, it sure smelt good and reminded me of you and Dad and old Muley. That's what I'm fighting for, Mom, a world in which there won't be no soldiers putting down their blankets right where...
...filled in the story. The lost commander was one of the best-known, best-liked of U.S. airborne officers: Brigadier General Don Forrester Pratt, assistant commander of the 101st Airborne Division. He had led his detachment to a landing on the extreme right of the Allied line, northwest of Carentan. He died when his command glider crashed into a tree...
Farther south was the other half of Bradley's army, the V Corps. Its 2nd Division and 101st Airborne Division took, lost and retook Carentan, lying amid flooded lowlands at the juncture of the two original U.S. beachheads-a naturally vulnerable point. Around the bend in the Bay of the Seine, other U.S. troops fought their way southward...
...whole truth is harder to put together from the evidence of ten days. I have talked to people in Isigny, Carentan, Bayeux and nearly all the smaller towns between them and the sea, and this is a preliminary report of what they have said and what they have revealed by their actions...
...hard-hit Carentan, Americans got their warmest welcome. The townspeople said that the farmers round about sold to the Germans and the black market before they would sell to the local people. Many of the farmers have grown rich-again according to the townspeople. Now that the franc is pegged at 50 to the dollar (it was 250 to the dollar on the black market), they are richer than ever...