By Center of Military History United States Army
A significant other quantity to Omaha Beachhead, this narrative rounds out the account of the landings at corps point and lower than and relates the process VII Corps strive against operations which led to the catch of Cherbourg on 27 June 1944.
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Kellem), after assembling the bulk of its force, started for the la Fiere bridge. No troops could be sent to Chef-du-Pont immediately. The 3d Battalion (Lt. Col. Edward C. Krause) moved after collecting about a quarter of its men. Colonel Krause organized these men into two companies and headed for Ste. Mere-Eglise. Learning from a Frenchman that the Germans had recently established themselves outside the town along the roads, Colonel Krause planned to surround the town and establish road blocks before daylight.
He was moving infantry into the draw in front of his base. After the first German attack had been repulsed, Colonel Krause sent Company I, with eighty men, to strike at the enemy's western flank. The counterattack was almost disastrous, as Company I, confused by the zigzag course through hedgerows, turned east too soon and emerged on the road just ahead of the enemy position. ' The surprise and effectiveness of the blow led the enemy forces immediately south of Ste. Mere-Eglise to overestimate American strength, and they began to withdraw.
Both regiments, however, were scattered and faced some of the most-difficult problems of assembly of any of the airborne units (Map VI). the railroad. The railroad embankment rose prominently from the marshland and was a convenient orientation feature. The men knew it was the only railroad in the Merderet valley and naturally used it as a guide. Probably the first group to do so was the one led by Capt. F. V. Schwartzwalder. His group of men from the 507th Parachute Infantry had landed along the swamp east of the Merderet and assembled on the railroad embankment.