U.S. AIRBORNE TROOPS LIBERATE FIRST FRENCH TOWN
Carentan, Cotentin Peninsula, France • June 13, 1944 Late Monday, June 5, 1944, the largest amphibious invasion in history was set to launch. The next day, June 6, D-Day, 3 Allied armies began depositing their precious cargo of men and equipment on 5 Normandy beaches and in multiple aerial drop zones behind them. By evening the first-day wave…