This Week's Best Old Photos

No. 357

On June 14, 1944, the 101st Airborne Division, with the support of the 2nd Armored Division, liberated the French city of Carentan, a strategic crossroads at the base of the Cotentin Pennisula, after a six-day battle that cost 400 American lives.

The American victory in Carentan consolidated the D-Day beachheads on Utah and Omaha beaches, creating a soli…