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    Saint-Côme-du-Mont (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ kom dy mɔ̃]) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January...
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    reconnaissance toward Saint Côme-du-Mont jumped off at 0430 as planned, but without the full-strength glider infantry battalion, which had not yet come up. The town...
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    used by Napoleon Bonaparte at the same location. The highway from Saint Côme-du-Mont crossed the floodplain via a narrow 1 mile (2 km) long causeway having...
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    landed almost intact on DZ D but in a day-long battle failed to take Saint-Côme-du-Mont and destroy the highway bridges over the Douve. The glider battalions...
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    Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, from 1942 until his death at Saint-Côme-du-Mont, Normandy, on D-Day, June 6, 1944, during World War II. Despite being...
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    opposite Brévands, destroying the highway bridges over the Douve at Saint-Côme-du-Mont, and securing the Douve River valley. Their secondary mission was...
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  • Aveyron department Saint-Côme-de-Fresné, a commune in the department of Calvados in the Basse-Normandie region Saint-Côme-du-Mont, a commune in the Manche...
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    seat), Angoville-au-Plain, Houesville, and Saint-Côme-du-Mont. On January 1, 2017, Brévands, Les Veys, and Saint-Pellerin joined the commune of Carentan...
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  • counterattack before embarking on the tank to secure a vital crossroad near Saint-Côme-du-Mont. Although successful in breaking through the heavy German defenses...
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    Mont Blanc (BrE: ⫽ˌmɒˈblɒ(k)⫽; AmE: ⫽ˌmɑːn(t)ˈblɑːŋk⫽; French: Mont Blanc [mɔ̃ blɑ̃]; Italian: Monte Bianco [ˈmonte ˈbjaŋko], both meaning "white mountain")...
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