Dead Man's Corner

Dead Man's Corner is an intersection of roads between Saint-Côme-du-Mont and Carentan. This is the place where a killed American tank commander hung out of his tank for several days, a story that is indeed questioned. A museum is now located at this site.
On June 6, 1944, D-Day, the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division landed in Normandy. The main task of the division was to capture the village of Carentan, an important link between Utah Beach and Omaha Beach. They followed the road through Saint-Côme-du-Mont, where they engaged in combat with Fallschirmjäger, the Green Devils of the 6th Parachute Regiment. After this, the Americans waited for tank support, which was to come from Utah Beach. When the first tank approached the intersection on June 8, it was hit and disabled by a German Panzerschreck. The Dead Man's Corner Museum states that the commander, 1st Lieutenant Walter T. Anderson from Minnesota, was killed and half ejected from the wreck of the tank. The corpse thus remained there for days, leading soldiers at this intersection — a little four kilometers north of Carentan — to refer to it as 'The corner with the dead man in the tank', later abbreviated to 'Dead Man's Corner'. Another source reports this story but states that there are no photos and cites an unnamed witness who believes that no man hung out of the tank for days, but that the driver was dead at the controls.

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