29th Division - Crossing the Elle River

Описание: Within just a week of their successful but costly landing on Omaha beach on DDay, the American 29th Infantry Division were engaged against the same German unit - the 352nd Infantry Division near Sainte-Marguerite-d'Elle on the drive for Saint-Lô. A plan to seize and cross two seemingly insignificant bridges across the tiny river Elle lead to a day of fierce combat and some of their worst losses on a single day in Normandy. Battlefield guide and historian Mike van de Dobbelsteen (an old friend of WW2TV's) who lives just 100 metres from one of the bridges presents this Battlefield Study film about that day.

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