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until mid-August, then as a support airfield for supplies and evacuation of wounded personnel until its closure in
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and the other three lodgments to the east of Omaha. US forces maintained possession of the town despite a German armor-reinforced counterattack on June 13 just to the southwest of town known as the
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landed on Utah Beach shortly after dawn with few casualties, and began staging for a move against
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