Lodieu, Didier La Big Red One face à la 2. Pz.Div. Combats dans le secteur de Caumont 10 juin - début juillet 1944

After landing on Omaha Beach on 6 June 1944, the soldiers of the American 1st Infantry Division nicknamed "Big Red One" had to continue the fight and battle the German 352nd Infantry Division. To this end, they went three days and three nights without sleep. Shortly afterwards, they received orders to take Caumont-l'Eventé. For the US soldiers, this was the next test so that the Omaha Beach bridgehead could finally be secured.

To take this strategically important place, they had to advance 23 kilometres and exploit a gap in the German defence system. However, they did not yet know that the German 2nd Panzer Division. was on its way to their front section and that their advance units were already setting up defences to receive the Americans.... With the help of Pierre-Louis Gosselin, creator of the museum of the "Big Red One" in Colleville-sur-Mer, who studied the site, collected documents, photographs and personal items, and maintained constant contact with a large number of veterans of this division, Didier Lodieu did his best to offer the reader a lively and hitherto unpublished study of one of the forgotten pages of the Battle of Normandy.