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<blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1801132" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10985894_707041172759011_5759557621564652099_n.jpg?oh=7013c00d868a901225d1a74bf8ecfa8c&amp;oe=55C89AC8&amp;__gda__=1438834850_b32a9b6cb82951a9e0d2b99e0b109d2b" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> 1st Lt. John H. Reeder of RHQ/506th (PIR) Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st US Airborne Division stands by the road sign on the D913 indicating the direction to St. Come du Mont in Normandy, sometime shortly after the 8th June 1944.Lt. Reeder had earlier taken a photo of an American Stuart light tank (M-5) of Company 'D', 70th Tank Battalion, at a junction just south of this spot, it had been knocked-out nearly in front of a large house on the 7th of June and remained there for days afterward. The burned body of the tank commander could still be seen in the turret, and soldiers started to use it as a reference point, saying, &quot;Go to the corner where the dead man is in the tank&quot;.This was soon shortened to &quot;Dead Man's Corner&quot;.'The Dead Man's Corner Museum' is now located in that house, on this highly historical ground between Carentan and Saint-Côme-du-Mont. The house and surrounding land (1 hectare) are property of the Carentan Historical Center. (Nb. Lt John Reeder was seriously wounded in an operation on &quot;the Island,&quot; a five-kilometer area bordered by the Lower Rhine to the north and the Waal River to the south in October 1944)(Colorised by Johhny Sirlande from Belgium)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="emilioteles, post: 1801132, member: 3144"] [IMG]https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10985894_707041172759011_5759557621564652099_n.jpg?oh=7013c00d868a901225d1a74bf8ecfa8c&oe=55C89AC8&__gda__=1438834850_b32a9b6cb82951a9e0d2b99e0b109d2b[/IMG] 1st Lt. John H. Reeder of RHQ/506th (PIR) Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st US Airborne Division stands by the road sign on the D913 indicating the direction to St. Come du Mont in Normandy, sometime shortly after the 8th June 1944. Lt. Reeder had earlier taken a photo of an American Stuart light tank (M-5) of Company 'D', 70th Tank Battalion, at a junction just south of this spot, it had been knocked-out nearly in front of a large house on the 7th of June and remained there for days afterward. The burned body of the tank commander could still be seen in the turret, and soldiers started to use it as a reference point, saying, "Go to the corner where the dead man is in the tank". This was soon shortened to "Dead Man's Corner". 'The Dead Man's Corner Museum' is now located in that house, on this highly historical ground between Carentan and Saint-Côme-du-Mont. The house and surrounding land (1 hectare) are property of the Carentan Historical Center. (Nb. Lt John Reeder was seriously wounded in an operation on "the Island," a five-kilometer area bordered by the Lower Rhine to the north and the Waal River to the south in October 1944) (Colorised by Johhny Sirlande from Belgium) [/QUOTE]

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