Carentan

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Carentan is a town and commune of the Manche département in Normandy, France. It is also the chief town of the canton of Carentan in the arrondissement of Saint-Lô. This town is close to the site of the World War II Battle of Bloody Gulch.

Population: 6,899
Area: 15.66 km²
Altitude: 6 m

[edit] Popular culture

Carentan has been featured on many World War II themed games and TV series, including the computer games Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2 as a multiplayer map, as well as Company of Heroes, and Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30 and Brothers In Arms: Earned in Blood. Carentan was also featured in the BBC/HBO WW2 series Band of Brothers.

[edit] 101st Airborne March created in Carentan

The "101st Airborne March" was composed by Daniel Bourdelès, a Norman composer, for the celebration of the liberation of Carentan, in June 1994. This march is extracted from the CD "Carentan, the sky memory" (1994), producted by the town. It is steadily used as a musical illustration for the Normandy liberation films on France3 regional TV. You can hear it here: http://magene.chez-alice.fr/airborne.html