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Carentan (( episode3 Band of Brothers ))

Carentan is a small town in Normandy that needs to be taken by the allies so that armor from Utah and Omaha beach can link up and move inland. 2nd Battalion was sent in to get the job done. The road the men took into Carentan was covered in German machine gun fire. The men took cover in the ditches in the side of the road, while Winters stood in the middle of the road, trying to get the men moving. Some of the men had gotten into the town, though not very far, and took cover behid some buildings, fireing at the machines gunners who had the rest of the men stuck. Winters sent some of the men to go around and get in the town through a different way 2 buildings over from where the machine gunners were. Shifty shot down a sniper, and a machine gunner. Soon the men were in the town, and gaining control of it.

Carentan-- Lipton takes shell fragments to his face, hand, and inner right thigh

They had a machine gun set up firing into the field of retreating Germans, and men were throwing hand-grenades into buildings and making sure they were clear, when the Germans began shelling the town. Lipton was yelling to the men saying "they got us zeroed! Get out of the street!", when a shell went off and he took a piece to his face, hand, and inner right thigh. Soon they had the town cleared. Winters was going down a street, when a bullet ricoched((dont kno how to spell that)) oof the street and hit him in the leg. When he was in the aid station geting it cleaned and bandaged by Doc Roe, he saw Pvt. Blithe sitting in a corner. He went and limped over to see what was wrong. Pvt. Blithe could not see, but after being talked to and comforted byWinters, he was relieved and stayed in the aid station only a few more hours before returning to the men again. Doc Roe called it hysterical blindness.

    The Germans who had occupied the town regrouped south of town. Easy was sent out to defend the line, and prevent a counter-attack. They were positioned behind a hedgerow, with Germans behind another Hedgerow about 500 meters away. the men dug in.

    Sometime in the night, Sgnt. Talbert went to a Pvt. Smiths foxhole, wearing a German rain poncho, to tell him it was his time to check the line. Smith lunged at Talbert and stabbed him twice, thinking he was German. Talbert rcovered and came back to jump into Holland.

    That night, Winters is telling Lieutanant Welsh that they will begin at 0600 hours(( 6:00 )) the next morning with mortar and machine gun fire, if the Germans didnt attack before then. Right as the men  were about to attack, the Germans began shelling them, and soon there were tanks firing onto easy's left flank (( dog and fox company )), who soon pulled back. Easy was left to defend the line basically by themselves. The 2nd armored regiment comes to easy's rescue and soon the Germans pull back. Pvt. Blithe is ordered to lead a patrol to a farmhouse, which is exspected to have Germans in it. He gets shot in the neck. At the end of the episode, it tells you he died a few years later. I was on Amazon.com, and under its facts about Band of Brothers, it said that Blithes family reported that he was in fact shot in the shoulder, recovered, fought in Korea, and was buried in Arlington National cemetary with full military honors.