No: 2129
Access Public
Visible Yes
Name La Fiere BridgeType 1 Place Military
Type 2 Location Sainte-mère-ÉgliseRegion Country France
Phone Web Video Month Rate Medium
Plan N
Done Y
Comments One of the most confused fights took place west of the village at La Fière Bridge, over the Merderet River. Uncoordinated groups from the 505th, 507th, and 508th regiments hold the position and finally went over the bridge on the 7th. The Monument Iron Mike is overlooking the site, its twin statutes is at Fort Benning. Alongside the road is General Gavin's fox hole. The photo of flooded marshland, a common occurrence that Germans exploited, shows the conditions as they were in 1944.