The city of Carentan was a vital objective for the Americans to take and the Germans to hold during the Battle of Normandy. As depicted in the series Band of Brothers, there was an intense fight that took place between the American 101st Airborne & 2nd Armored Divisions and the 6th Fallschirmjäger of the German Army which culminated in the Battle of Bloody Gulch, which is depicted in the series Band of Brothers. In this episode, we're visiting the real location of Bloody Gulch and bringing an artifact from The Gettysburg Museum of History that is connected to the fight that happened there.
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