Haney, Manning Guy, Cpl

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Service Details

Last Rank
Corporal

Last Service Branch
Infantry

Last Primary MOS
604-Light Machine Gunner

Last MOS Group
Infantry (Enlisted)

Primary Unit
1943-1944, 745, 101st Airborne Division

Service Years
1942 - 1944

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Personal Details

Home State

Illinois

Year of Birth
1924

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Casualty Info

Home Town Alexander	Last Address Fulton, Kentucky

Casualty Date Oct 09, 1944
Cause Hostile, Died	Reason Artillery, Rocket, Mortar
Location Netherlands	Conflict WWII - European-African-Middle Eastern Theater/Rhineland Campaign (1944-45)/Operation Market Garden
Location of Interment Bell Cemetery - Iuka, Illinois	Wall/Plot Coordinates Not Specified

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Normandy Campaign (1944)/Battle for Carentan
Start Year 1944	End Year 1944
Description The Battle of Carentan was an engagement in World War II between airborne forces of the United States Army and the German Wehrmacht during the Battle of Normandy. The battle took place between 10 and 15 June 1944, on the approaches to and within the city of Carentan, France. The objective of the attacking American forces was consolidation of the U.S. beachheads (Utah Beach and Omaha Beach) and establishment of a continuous defensive line against expected German counterattacks. The defending German force attempted to hold the city long enough to allow reinforcements en route from the south to arrive, prevent or delay the merging of the lodgments, and keep the U.S. First Army from launching an attack towards Lessay-Périers that would cut off the Cotentin Peninsula. Carentan was defended by the 6th Parachute Regiment, two Ost battalions and remnants of other German forces. The 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, ordered to reinforce Carentan, was delayed by transport shortages and attacks by Allied aircraft. The attacking 101st Airborne Division, landed by parachute on 6 June as part of the American airborne landings in Normandy, was ordered to seize Carentan. In the ensuing battle, the 101st forced passage across the causeway into Carentan on 10 and 11 June. A lack of ammunition forced the German forces to withdraw on 12 June. The 17th SS PzG Division counter-attacked the 101st Airborne on 13 June. Initially successful, its attack was thrown back by Combat Command A (CCA) of the U.S. 2nd Armored Division.