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F|H Campaign 14 – Battle #1
Sainte-Mère-Église 
The missionThe 82nd and 101st American airborne divisions are to be parachuted in the hours preceding the amphibian offensive, in the western sector of the allied invasion, West and South-west of Utah Beach, located in the Cotentin peninsula.
The Germans have flooded most of the grounds going South of Valogne to the localities of Carentan and Isigny-sur-Mer. The beach of Utah, where is to land the American soldiers of the 4th infantry division, is isolated by a rampart of marshes, which is accessible from the interior of the grounds only by four narrow roads. The main mission of the American parachutists is to capture these access roads, called “Causeways” at the time of the briefings, in the first hours of June 6 to allow the landed troops to progress quickly towards toward the West.
The American parachutists were scattered in all the South-east of the Cotentin, and very rare are the sections which arrived exactly at the good DZ. “Drop Zones” of the paras belonging to the 505th PIR of the 82nd Airborne was encircled North, South and West by a marsh, and East by Sainte-Mère-Eglise: many paras were dropped over the village and became targets for the German soldiers who, alerted by a house fire caused by the explosion of a bomb, were scanning the sky.
About ten American soldiers were dropped near the Church and shot by the sentinels. The parachutist John Steel remained over the Church during more than two hours, until the village was mainly under American control: after short but violent engagements, the spangled banner is installed at the town hall at 4 o'clock. The village of Sainte-Mère-Eglise is released, but the engagements are not entirely finished there.
Despite an extremely high number of losses (50% in the only night of June 6, 1944), the American parachutists of the 82nd and 101st Airborne achieve a great number of their missions. The Germans, disorganized by the American parachutists, do not know any more where to attack and seem also completely disorientated. Moreover, the sabotage actions carried out by the French resistance reinforces this phenomenon of disorder which paralysis the German forces in this area.
The “Causeways” are overall under American control: the landing can start.
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