The 502nd PIR in Normandy
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| Carentan | 11 June 1944 |
| Heading north out of the town on the | It is from here that started from a "cabbage patch" |
| old N13 (towards the Douve bridges). | the decisive assault of the 502nd Parachute |
| Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division | |
| pushing out the Germans. | |
| It allowed the liberation of Carentan. | |
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| Hancock Field | |
| CPT Fred A Hancock | |
| C 1/502 PIR - 6 June 1944 |
James A. Ryan JR, PVT 502 PRCHT INF 101 ABN DIV, Pennsylvania, June 6 1944.
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