Purple Heart Lane: Three days to cross 1 mile. The 3rd battalion 502nd to Carentan

Purple heart lane was so called due to the number of casualties incurred while taking it. Five days after D-day, during nearly three days the 3rd battalion 502nd, 101st Div led by Lt Col Robert Cole strove to enter Carentan along the N13. Legend to the maps in the videos. https://www.normandy-tour-guide.com/cube/files/public/Legende.pdf NORMANDY VECTOR MAP https://www.normandy-tour-guide.com/cube/maps/maps If you'd like to buy me a coffee or a gallon of diesel - https://www.paypal.me/ColinMcgarry or support My Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDday D-Day books and other merchandise https://www.normandy-tour-guide.com/merch.php MY PLAY LIST https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfnzFSMIbTlzhPZszK-zfUatoqD8W5Dew Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ColinMcgarryTourGuide/ Twitter https://twitter.com/WalkingDday?lang=en Linkdin https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-mcgarry-b0608b110/ Pinterest https://pinterest.com/walking_dday Instagram https://instagram.com/walking_dday Web Site https://www.normandy-tour-guide.com 00:00 Intro 00:37 Dead Man's corner 01:42 Germans leave Saint Come du Mont 02:12 Fist bridge on river Douve 02:25 9th June Second bridge Colonel Sink goes on reconnaisance 03:25 Lt Gehauf flies in Piper cub to view Carentan 04:20 Lt Gehauf at bridge number 4 05:00 Gehauf's runner gives Cole the opposite message 05:25 9th June Cole takes his men back to Les Quesnils 05:47 10th June Cole leads the 3rd battalion to the bridges. 06:50 Germans open fire 07:15 Pushing past the belgian gate 07:28 Stukas attack 09:11 Men smim across La Madeleine 09:35 11th June Cole launches bayonet charge 12:00 Ingouf farm Coles CP 12:14 Cabbage patch battle 12:25 Pommenauque 13:00 506th moves out Easy company 13:51 12th June Final three pronged attack into Carentan + + Bibliography Photos US National Archives Soundfx: Mouse click (by THE_bizniss) https://freesound.org/people/THE_bizniss/sounds/39562/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en Unfa's Menu Sounds (by unfa) https://freesound.org/people/unfa/sounds/244266/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ BronzeBell2 (by Zabuhailo) https://freesound.org/people/Zabuhailo/sounds/178645/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Font: https://www.dafont.com/fr/roboto.font Visited and Projected sites: Why D-Day Pegasus bridge Omaha beach Sword beach Pointe du Hoc American airborne Utah beach Juno beach Gold beach British airborne Saint Marie du Mont Waverly Wray Omaha inland 6th June 2020 76th anniversary. La Fierre Michael Wittman - Villers Bocage - Gaumesnil The Malmann line Band of Brothers Merville gun battery Filthy Thirteen Worthington Force Falaise pocket Taking St Lo Operation Cobra Longues gun battery Taking Cherbourg Operation Bleucoat General Falley Arromanches and the Mulberries 82nd airborne 101st airborne Donald Burgett Operation Totalise Graignes massacre Joe Beryle Ed Shames Angoville au plain Battle of Bloody gulch Maisy gun battery. Abbey d'Ardenne and the Canadian 7th June advance Hillman Douvre radar station Photo credits US national archives Bundes archives

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