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Fallschirmjägers from the 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment and Panzergrenadiers from the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division “Götz Von Berlichingen” regroup near Hill 30 after encountering a small US 101st Airborne Scout group.

Normandy, 12 June 1944.

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After the allied invasion in Normandy, the Götz von Berlichingen was ordered to Normandy to take part in the efforts to reduce the Allied beachhead. On June 10 the Division made contact with 182 Paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, and B Company, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division at the village of Graignes. This small group of Paratroopers had been mistakenly dropped by the US 9th Army Air Force Troop Carrier Command and had decided to try and hold their positions. The ensuing battle, and the criminal execution of wounded Paratroopers and French Civilians by the "Götz von Berlichingen" has since been known as the Battle of Graignes. On June 11 the reconnaissance battalion engaged in combat with the paratroopers of the US 101st Airborne Division near the town of Carentan.

 

The Americans secured the town and were advancing south by the morning of June 13.

 

SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 37, supported by the assault guns of the division's Panzer battalion and Oberst Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte's 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment, attacked the advancing paratroopers. In what the Americans dubbed The Battle of Bloody Gulch, the Germans routed two paratroop companies before their attack was stopped by the arrival of Combat Command A of the U.S. 2nd Armored Division. - info: military.wikia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bloody_Gulch

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