i've searched it and found no result.

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Originally posted by tylenol:
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Go through the other post in the historical section and you find information.

Basically Dead Man's corner got it's name because a guy in a tank was shot dead at the a street intersection.

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Originally posted by tylenol:
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Ok BIA fan heres a photo from WW2 of the area around deadmans corner

What happened here was basicly a stewart tank got taken out right at the cross roads leading north to Saint-Come-du-Mont and south of the cross road to Carentan.
This is what a Stewart Tank looks like there very small even compared to a Sherman Tank. well a Stewart Tank like this was at the cross road taken out, the men called it DEADMAN'S CORNER becuase of this.

hope i helped

How Dead Man's Corner got it's name:

The corner got it's name when an American tank was knocked out right in front of the house, where it sat for days, with the dead commander sticking up from the turret. The troops began referring to it as "the corner where the dead man's in the tank" This was shortened to "Dead Man's Corner" and it is still known by that name in France today.

There are at least two versions of how the tank was knocked out. Don Burgett presented one in his book ,Currahee, stating the tank was destroyed by German artillery on 7 June as it headed toward the D-913 to get more ammunition. Others claim the tank was knocked out by Panzerfaust fire from German paratroops in the ditch south of the intersection

From the book:
Vanguard of the Crusade - 101 Airborne Division in World War II
by Mark Bando

thank you for the info..

so was the corner strategically important?
or did any battle take place on the corner?

It was important because it was a direct route to carentan

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Originally posted by greenlionhaert:
It was important because it was a direct route to carentan

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yep and to the east of the cross roads leads to utah beach exit so when the usa landed on the beaches on utah they can come down this road with there tanks etc, and push on past carentan and start taking some serious ground.

this crossroad was very improtant becuase with out it traveling is more difficult

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i also found this...

here is the buliding where the Stewart Tank got killed.
http://img129.exs.cx/img129/185/p10101236bo.jpg

Cool, interesting stuff thanks for that.

no problem

Ive read somewhere that the tank soldier was about to climb out the burning tank but was shot and falled down inside the tank again and got fried alive! Randy Pithford said that in a interview a think...

A_C_J_N - that is my pic that I took whilst visiting the normandy area this year over the 60th anniversary.

Major 2005 is right, the sgt., I can't remember hi name, tried to escape the tank as it was hit but was killed by the blast and remained slumped in the turret for days.

The house a Dead Man's Corner was being usewd by 6th Fallschirmjager Regiment as a field hospital. On the my pic that A_C_J_N has posted, if you look closely you can see the marks made by small arms fire on the building.

dead mans corner was a different peice of war from what was origianly thought to be untre *hahah i love noob rumors*

basically, a corner of warsaw was used to annilhate many many englishmen as they would be in direct mg fire, that of which was impenetrable, and could go through walls

germans had aimbots! haha! they wish i can hear them saying!

I have absolutely no idea what you mean by that. Corner of Warsaw? Englishmen?

war buff isnt much of one his not even on topic .

garethmk1 yeah i found it somewhere can remeber somewhere on here , but i dont see the bullet

holes. anyway here more pics. of deadmans corner and the road next to it leading south to carentan (purple heart lane)

in game shot (xbox version, dont worry PC pple inculeding me) have a look at it compared to now, not much has changed

another in game shot of deadmans corner

behind the house

front of house again, the fence on the left istnt visible any more its now all covered up with bushes

A story concerning (possibly) the same STUART tank at what was later to be known as "Dead Man's Corner."

From Mark Bando's "The Screaming Eagles at Normandy"

"S/Sgt W.R. "Web" Raduenz of B/506th was talking to Lt. Col. William L. Turner when a sniper's bullet struck Turner in the forehead. This was on 7 June 1944, between Beaumont and Dead Man's Corner, along D913 road. Turner himself was standing up in the turret of a tank from "D" Co. 70th Tank Battalion at the time he was killed. A former tanker himself, Turner entered Normandy as CO of 1st Battalion, 506th PIR. Turner's brother landed with the 8th Infantry Division and was also killed by a sniper in Normandy. The two brothers are buried side by side in the cemetery above Omaha Beach"

Incidentally the "Tank" in the picture posted previously by AJCN is not a Stuart, it is a pre-war M1 "Combat Car". This is an M5 Stuart:-