Easy Company - 101st Airborne memorial

A monument to the men of the 101st Airborne Division 506th P.I.R. "Easy" Company, located near Brecourt Manor outside the town of Sainte Marie du Mont on the site where at 08:30 on the 6th June 1944 Dick Winters and a team of 12 men collected from his own and other companies destroyed a German Artillery Battery which had been firing on forces exiting Utah Beach.

In one of the gun positions a German map containing all artillery and machine gun positions in the Cotentin Peninsula area was discovered. This information was passed up the chain of command. Command was so pleaded with information provided that the first two tanks to reach Utah Beach were sent to support the paratroopers.

This assault was made famous by the Band Of Brothers mini series.