Shortly after 02:00 hours on D-Day, Tuesday, 6 June 1944, twelve planeloads of American paratroopers from the 3rd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, were scattered throughout the marshes south of Carentan.
On the morning of 6 June, the village's mayor, M. Alphonse Voydie, awoke to find American paratroopers in the field behind his house.