“The mission was simple: isolate Cherbourg. The execution? Anything but.”
In the days following the D-Day landings, American forces faced a race against time—and terrain. Their objective: cut off the Cotentin Peninsula, a vital piece of Normandy jutting into the English Channel, and capture the deep-water port of Cherbourg.
This tour isn’t about grand speeches or iconic beach landings. It’s about mud-soaked boots, hedgerow firefights, and the unshakable grit of the American infantry who clawed their way through unforgiving countryside to outflank the Germans and sever their hold on the region.
Welcome to our personalized guided tour: “American Infantry in Normandy: Cutting the Cotentin.”
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