Carentan

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"Carentan" redirects here. For the Band of Brothers episode, see Carentan (Band of Brothers).

Coordinates: 49°18′15″N 1°14′49″W / 49.30416, -1.24694

Administration
Commune of Carentan Port of Carentan
Location

Country	France
Region	Basse-Normandie
Department	Manche
Arrondissement	Saint-Lô
Canton	Carentan
Intercommunality	Communauté de Communes de Carentan-en-Cotentin (CCCC)
Mayor	Jean-François Landry (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	0 m–30 m (avg. 6 m)
Land area^¹	15.66 km²
Population^² (1999)	6,340
- Density	404/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	50099/ 50500
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

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. It is likely the site of ancient Crociatonum.^[1] This town is close to the site of the World War II Battle of Bloody Gulch.

1 Popular culture
- 1.1 101st Airborne March created in Carentan
2 Twinned Town
3 References
4 See also

[edit] Popular culture

Carentan cathedral

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, Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30, Brothers In Arms: Earned in Blood and Battlefield 1942 as the map "Bocage". 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), produced 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