Faced with the unenviable task of opposing the Allied landing at “Utah” beach were three battalions of the 709th Division and further inland elements of the 91LL, better trained and more mobile, with the 243rd which was several miles away on the Western shore. H.K.A. The 709th static infantry Division was a Coastal unit assigned to protect the Eastern and Northern coasts of the Cotentin Peninsula, including the Utah Beach-head and the US airborne landing zones. The strongpoint WN ‘Widerstandsnest’ 5 at La Grande Dune, La Madeleine, in the centre of the landing beaches was pounded by US naval batteries. In 1944, 2,000 km of the Atlantic Coast line was covered by 23 Bodenständige-Division), these Divisions were not trained in mobile warfare and as such possessed very limited transport, any transport assigned to the division were usually horse drawn and they generally occupied a rigid defence position usually on a broad front.. linking with 82nd Airborne in St. Mère Église. It was on the Normandy coast when the invasion fell, and thus fought in the Battle of Normandy. launchers. 91.LL.Div Tactical Symbol 德國國防軍陸軍第208步兵師（德語： 208. This page was last modified on 6 November 2015, at 12:47. Kommandant von Fortress Cherbourg. HQ/Gefechtsstand : La Hotellerie Gefechtsstand. They are stationed in Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy during the Normandy campaign and was destroyed in the process. Elements of the 709th were heavily engaged on D-Day, defending the peninsula against US airborne landings and also against the US 4th Infantry Division landing on Utah beach. They were all motorized. i would like to tell you that your blog is more and more interesting each day. The Allied landed on General der Artillerie Marcks’s 53rd birthday, he was killed six days later on June 12 by an Allied fighter-bomber attack near Hébécrevon, northwest of Saint-Lô while on his daily round of troop unit inspections . The 2./GR.919 manned the WN6 strongpoint covering the western end of the Causeway leading inland and WN2a on the beach itself. While they were badly disorientated by the severity of the bombardment, actual German casualties inflicted by the naval and aerial barrage were low. Infanterie-Division, (Lieutenant General Karl Wilhelm von Schlieben, the Commander of the 709. 513, 517, 518, of the Schnelle Brigade 30 (Radfahr-Rgt. Panzer Ersatz und Ausbildungs Abteilung 100, (PzAbt100), equipped with older German and captured French equipment and positioned in the area south of the Douve River. Each infantry regiment had one infantry howitzer company with six Russian 7,62 cm infantry howitzers. However among the Americans prisoners taken by the 795th was a Russian speaking US sergeant who persuaded some members of 4th Coy to surrender leaving a gap in the defences on the ridge. Casualties in the division, excluding subordinated units, amounted to about 5 000 men. Meanwhile, two regiments of the US 4th Infantry Division moved north up the Cotentin Peninsula and met German resistance at coastal gun positions near Azeville and Crisbecq. Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens (translators). 100 in attacking the southern face of the US beach and airhead. With naval gunfire support, the troops slowly moved along the coast up the Cotentin Peninsula. Its artillery was mostly captured Soviet types, but it had a self-propelled tank destroyer battalion with 14 75mm Marder III and ten StuG III assault guns. In addition to this, the 919. 40, a mountain howitzer that used ammunition that was not interchangeable with the standard German 10,5 cm field howitzer. Armee map bore the brunt of the Allied amphibious landings on “Utah Beach” on 6th June 1944. Generalleutnant der Infanterie. 0700hrs: With the arrival of 28 M4 Sherman medium tanks with their 75 mm guns, operated by the 70th Tank Battalion, the task of reducing the beach defences and breaching the obstacles began in earnest. Infanterie-Division ）是納粹德國 國防軍 陸軍的一個步兵師。 該師於1939年8月組建。 該師組建後，首次作戰為參與1939年9月的入侵波蘭行動。 1940年，該師參與入侵法國行動。. These battalions were led by German 91. 752 : Kommandeur : Oberst Kessler German Tactical Situation Map – 6.6.1944, 22hrs, 6th June 1944: Defending the Beach at ‘La Madeleine’ and ‘La Grande Dune’. He tried to escape through the American lines but was attacked by an Allied air fighter and killed. Baarová, Lida Babková, Goebbels’s mistress. (84 Army Corps) Units on 6th June 1944, OKH Map showing General Situation – LXXXIV A.K. The landing troops quickly made a temporary beachhead, and soon after they were supported by 28 (out of 32) duplex-drive tanks, operated by the 70th Tank Battalion, which led them to breach the seawall. Further south the beaches – between Poupeville and Ravenouville, was held by elements of I./GR919 stationed in defensive positions, their fate was not recorded in detail due to their sudden envelopment. It was raised in May 1941 and used for occupation duties during the German occupation of France in World War II until the Allied invasion.