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As effective commander of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during D-Day, First Lieutenant Richard D. Winters was tasked to take on a battery of German 105mm howitzers which were firing onto causeway #2 off Utah Beach. Some other units had stumbled onto the enemy position head-on earlier in the day, and were repulsed. 506th PIR Patch 506th PIR Crest During World War II, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (506th PIR) was a regiment of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army. ...
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About 0830, Winters gathered a team of thirteen men from his and other companies. Knowing little more than a general location of the gun emplacement, his team scouted the area north of a farm house called Brécourt Manor, located 3 miles west of Utah Beach, just south of a small village Le Grand-Chemin (near Sainte-Marie-du-Mont). There they spotted a battery of four 105mm guns connected by a trench network and defended by nests of MG42 machine guns. In total, they were up against about 50 Germans. A ditch with water can be used for drainage and irrigation. ...
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Upon arrival at the battery location, Winters developed a quick plan of attack. He had a pair of 30-caliber machine gun positions set up to function as fire bases, as well as an additional placements for covering fire, then led a flanking attack down the hedgerow leading to the first gun position. Bocage is a French word referring to a terrain of mixed woodland and pasture, with tortuous side-roads and lanes bounded on both sides by banks surmounted with high thick hedgerows limiting visibility. ...
After taking out the first gun position, each of the remaining gun positions were attacked from the connecting trenches. The trenches protected the attackers from the enemy machine gun positions. Reinforcements from D Company arrived to help attack the last gun. After all four guns were disabled, the small team was low on ammunition and left the area. During the attack, Winters had discovered an enemy map, showing all of the fortified position in the area. This was a valuable piece of intelligence, and was handed up the chain of command. Later on, two tanks from Utah arrived, and Winters directed their fire to cleanup the position.
Nearly every man involved was later recognized for their role in the attack:
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This was their first real battle experience of the war.
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