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Carentan is a town and commune of the Manche département in Normandy, France. It is also the chief town of the canton of Carentan in the arrondissement of Saint-Lô. This town is known by many as the site of a famous battle in World War II. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... Manche is a French département in Normandy named after La Manche (the sleeve), which is the French name of the English Channel. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to English counties. ... Mont Saint-Michel, one of the famous symbols of Normandy. ... The canton of Carentan is a canton of France, located in the arrondissement of Saint-Lô, in the Manche département, Basse-Normandie région. ... The Arrondissement of Saint-Lô in the Manche département of France is made up of 11 cantons and 123 communes. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...

  • Population: 6,899
  • Area: 15.66 km²
  • Altitude: 6 m

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Carentan has been featured on many World War II themed games and TV series, including the computer games Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2 as a multiplayer map, as well as Company of Heroes, and Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30 and Brothers In Arms: Earned in Blood. Carentan was also featured in the BBC/HBO WW2 series Band of Brothers. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... CoD redirects here. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Brothers In Arms is a 2005 first_person shooter video game being developed by Gearbox Software for the PC (as Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30), PlayStation 2, and Xbox. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network with headquarters in New York City. ... Band of Brothers is an acclaimed 10-part television miniseries about World War II, co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. ...


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Carentan nestles at the southwest corner of the Baie des Veys, 4 km as the crow flies from the sea, to which it is connected by a navigable channel.
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As the battle for Carentan developed, the left and right wings of the division were coordinated to form a ring about the town, and within this ring a pincers closed in on the town itself.
During the night of 11-12 June Carentan was set ablaze by artillery, naval guns, 4.2-inch mortars, and several tank destroyer guns which fired on point targets from the 327th Glider Infantry's positions along the canal.
The attack was obviously directed at the recapture of Carentan, and it drove to within 500 yards of the edge of the city.
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