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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 from 10 to 14 June 1944, on the approaches to and within the town of Carentan , France .
When the 101st Airborne entered the town of Carentan on June 12, 1944, after heavy fighting on the two previous days, they met relatively light resistance. The bulk of the surviving German defenders (from the 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment) had withdrawn to the southwest the previous night after a heavy Allied naval and artillery bombardment.
Marlene Dietrich (left) and Rita Hayworth serve food to soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen in 1942.. The Hollywood Canteen operated at 1451 North Cahuenga Boulevard in the Los Angeles, California, [1] [2] neighborhood of Hollywood between October 3, 1942 and November 22, 1945, as a club offering food, dancing, and entertainment for enlisted men and women, [1] [3] who were usually on their way ...
Hollywood Canteen is a 1944 American musical romantic comedy film starring Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Dane Clark and features many stars (appearing as themselves) in cameo roles. [3] and produced by Warner Bros. The film was written and directed by Delmer Daves [3] and received three Oscar nominations.
Small groups arrived in Carentan late at night on the 12 June. Other troopers, some alone and some in pairs, continued to filter in on the 13 and 14 June. Twenty-one men hidden by the Rigault family and taken to Carentan by Joseph Folliot on the night of 15 to 16 June were the last from Graignes to make it back to U.S. lines.
In 1928, Colbert signed a contract with Paramount Pictures. [4] A demand existed for stage actors who could handle dialogue in the new "talkies", and Colbert's elegance and musical voice were among her best assets. [2] Her distinctive high-cheekboned beauty drew attention in The Hole in the Wall (1929), but at first she did not like film acting ...
Ladies Courageous (also called Fury in the Sky in a 1950 Realart re-release) is a 1944 war film based on the novel Looking For Trouble (1941) by Virginia Spencer Cowles. Directed by John Rawlins , the film stars Loretta Young and Geraldine Fitzgerald .
Cast notes: The film features a very early appearance by Robert Mitchum , who is briefly seen as a dying soldier. It also marks the final performance by Diana Lewis , who retired following her marriage to William Powell .