Father Francis Sampson, Chaplain, 101st Airborne Division ("Screaming Eagles"), reads the Last Rites over soldiers of the Division killed in action in the savage battle for control of Carentan, Normandy, 8-13 June, 1944.  Best regards, JR.

Price of victory ...

US Army soldiers in Carentan, Normandy.  The date is not certain, but it is most likely to have been on or after 14 June, 1944; the last serious German attempt to recapture the town was smashed by superior US forces on 13 June.

I stand open to correction, but the gun in the 'photo appears to be a 57mm  M1 antitank gun, the US-manufactured version of the British Royal Ordnance QF 6-pounder AT gun.  If so, this would suggest that of the US units involved at Carentan, the soldiers shown here might belong to the 101st Airborne Division ("Screaming Eagles"), whose glider-borne antitank people were equippend with this weapon.  Best regards, JR.

Rue Houlgate, Carentan, Normandy.

There is a famous image of "three dead Americans" from Life Magazine's George Strock on Buna Beach. This image seems to be from that series but is of a fourth American. One can make out the other 3 bodies up the beach. The 3 dead were reportedly shot by a MG as they emerged from the jungle from a Machine gun in front of them. But, this fourth GI is behind them and turned towards them. 