![American paratroopers, with their weapons at the ready, advance cautiously through a field near Carentan littered with the bodies of their comrades, picked off by German sharpshooters, June 14, 1944.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Q-Spr22-Carentan-1-760x608.jpg)
Carentan
Bloody D-Day Clash for Carentan
By Mitch YockelsonOn Tuesday, June 6, 1944, at nearly three in the morning, Chicago-native Lieutenant John E. Peters safely landed Snooty, his Douglas C-47 Skytrain, on the massive 5,800-foot runway at Greenham Common airfield in southern England. Read more