Monday, June 6, 2022

In Normandy, the landing of archaeologists on the scene of D-Day

 

It is one of the great episodes of D-Day, a day that did not fail. Around 9:30 a.m. on June 6, 1944, about twenty paratroopers from companies D and E belonging to the 101e airborne division of the American army destroyed a battery of four guns served by about sixty soldiers of the Wehrmacht, at the manor of Brécourt, in fact a large farmhouse, located 4 kilometers behind the beach of the Madeleine , better known to history and tour buses as Utah Beach. Four American soldiers were killed.