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Men, 1 Order: D-Day's Impossible Assault

Men, 1 Order: D-Day's Impossible Assault

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On D-Day, a dozen paratroopers are ordered to silence German howitzers firing on Utah Beach. If they fail, thousands of men will be trapped.

Men, 1 Order: D-Day's Impossible Assault

This episode recounts the story of a small unit tasked with a critical mission on D-Day. It explores the discrepancy between official records and the actual events of an assault that became a textbook example of small-unit tactics.

Event: D-Day
Date: June 6, 1944
Location: Utah Beach, Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy
Unit: Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
Commander: First Lieutenant Richard Winters

- A folded map found in a captured German position on D-Day marked every artillery piece and machine gun on that section of the Cotentin Peninsula.
- Four German howitzers at Brécourt Manor were firing on the causeway exits from Utah Beach, threatening to trap the Fourth Infantry Division.
- First Lieutenant Richard Winters, with twelve men, received a single sentence of orders: "The artillery fire was coming from that direction. Take care of it."
- The German positions included a machine-gun nest covering the approach, capable of firing twelve hundred rounds per minute.
- Winters used the German-built connecting trenches, designed for resupply and troop movement, as a protected route for his men to advance.

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