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	Cotentin Peninsula - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The largest town in the peninsula is Cherbourg on the north coast, a major cross-channel port.
		Due to its comparative isolation, the peninsula is one of the remaining strongholds of the Norman language.
		The painter Jean Millet was born in the peninsula.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Cotentin (399 words)

	Cotentin Peninsula - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Cotentin Peninsula juts out into the English Channel from Normandy towards England, forming part of the north-west coast of France.
		Until the construction of modern roads, the peninsula was almost inaccessible in winter due to the band of marshland cutting off the higher ground of the promontory itself.
		The social scene was described in the novels of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (himself from the Cotentin).
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Cotentin_Peninsula (399 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cotentin Peninsula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mont-Saint-Michel: sheep graze on the reclaimed pr -sal or salt meadow (2004) Mont Saint Michel is a small rocky islet, roughly one kilometer from the north coast of France at the mouth of the Couesnon River, near Avranches in Normandy, close to the border of Brittany.
		La Hague is a region on the tip of the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, France.
		The COGEMA La Hague site is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant near La Hague on the French Cotentin Peninsula that currently has over half of the worlds light water reactor spent nuclear fuel reprocessing capacity.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cotentin-Peninsula (1468 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		Manche is coextensive with the Cotentin peninsula and extends S into the Norman woods.
		Cotentin CotentinkôtäNtăN´, region of N France, in Normandy, roughly coinciding with the peninsula formed by Manche dept. and extending into the English Channel.
		The lambs of the Cotentin breed of sheep are highly esteemed for their meat.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Manche (390 words)

	Cotentin Peninsula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is divided into three areas: the headland of La Hague, the Cotentin Pass, and thevalley of the River Saire.
		The largest town in the peninsula is Cherbourg on the north coast, a majorcross-channel port.
		Until the construction of modern roads, the peninsula was almost inaccessible in winter due to the band of marshland cuttingoff the higher ground of the promontory itself.
	www.therfcc.org /cotentin-peninsula-64772.html (268 words)

	Launching the Invasion: Utah Beach to Cherbourg: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hard fighting in the Cotentin Peninsula had preceded the seaborne landings, as two airborne divisions, the 82d and 101st, had been dropped into the beachhead area several miles inland beginning at about H minus 5 hours.
		Critical areas of the Cotentin therefore were: (1) the Carentan-la Barquette area, with its control of the water level in the low marshlands along the Douve and Merderet, which was the key point in the east for passage into or out of the peninsula; (2) the dry ground between St. Lo-d'Ourville and St.
		One of its major objectives, derived from the tactical aspects of the Cotentin terrain, was the cutting of the entire peninsula at its base as a preliminary to the drive on Cherbourg.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/BOOKS/WWII/utah/utah1.htm (4297 words)

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		Tactical Aspects of the Terrain The dominant terrain feature of the south Cotentin is the Douve River which, together with its principal tributary, the Merderet, drains the major portion of the peninsula, flows south and southeast, and then turns toward the sea (Map I).
		At 0400 it was estimated that the American plan seemed to be to "tie off the Cotentin Peninsula at its narrowest point." Uncertainty at the enemy command level seemed to have been duplicated among the subordinate units.
		In the flight from England and the landings in the respective drop zones on the peninsula, the 506th Parachute Infantry's experience was similar to that of the 502d.
	metalab.unc.edu /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/wwii/D-Day/utah.beach/utah.txt (22428 words)

	cotentin peninsula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Cotentin Peninsula forms part of the north-west coast of France.
		It juts out from Normandy into the English Channel towards England and forms a major part of the region of Normandy.
		It is divided into three areas: the headland of La Hague, the Cotentin Pass, and the valley of the River Saire.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /cotentin_peninsula.html (321 words)

	Cotentin Peninsula - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Flora and fauna of late Pleistocene deposits on the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy (Philosophical transactions of the Royal society of London)
		I sector Cotentin (from 6 June until 18 June 1944)
		Le Cotentin gens et choses du passe: Images photographiques de la Collection Le Goubey
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /cotentin.htm (466 words)

	NORMANDY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the past the COTENTIN peninsula was an island, and a southern band of low-lying land and marshes, the Cotentin pass, now stretches between Lessay and Carentan.
		Situated on the eastern side of the Cherbourg Peninsula, it was this part of the peninsula that played a vital part in the Normandy landings of the last war.
		To the West are Briquebec and Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, birthplace of Barbey d'Aurevilly, and once major strongholds built in the Middle Ages to guard the coast against invasion from the Channel Islands.
	www.jack-travel.com /Normandy/Normandy_Cotentin_Peninsula.htm (376 words)

	cotentin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Cotentin peninsula in Normandy forms part of the departement of Manche.
		It projects into the English Channel to reach its extremity in the northwest at the Cap de la Hague.
		Coutances functions as the capital of the Cotentin.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Cotentin.html (89 words)

	Le Cotentin, de Cherbourg à Valognes en passant par Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Barfleur et Quettehou
		Le cotentin, n'est ni une region ni un departement, c'est un espace geographique qui comprend les villes de Cherbourg, Valognes, Saint Vaast, Quettehou, Barfleur, Gatteville Phare, Fermanville, La Pernelle, Tatihou, Morsalines, Valcanville, Montfarville, Réville ou encore Jonville.
		En normandie ou en basse-normandie le Cotentin s'étend de Cherbourg à valognes en passant par Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Barfleur et Quettehou.
		Petite partie du Cotentin, le val de saire est délimité par les villes de Cherbourg, Valognes, Quettehou, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Barfleur, Saint-Pierre-Eglise et Fermanville.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /cotentin (485 words)

	Normandy - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Normandy is a former country (a Duchy) situated in northern France occupying the lower Seine area (upper or Haute-Normandie) and the region to the west (lower or Basse-Normandie) as far as the Cotentin Peninsula.
		Additionally, the rights of succession to that title are subject to Salic Law, which does not allow for female inheritance of the ducal title.
		The Norman language, a regional language, is spoken by a minority of the population: the Cotentin peninsula especially in the far West and in the Pays de Caux in the East.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Normandy (1329 words)

	Go2War2.nl - COSSAC plan voor operatie Overlord (15-07-1943)
		Naval and air considerations point to the area between the Pas de Calais and the Cotentin as the most suitable for the initial landing, air factors of optimum air support and rapid provision of airfields indicating the Pas de Calais as the best choice, with Caen as an acceptable alternative.
		An attack against the Cotentin Peninsula, on the other hand, has a reason-able chance of success, and would ensure the early capture of the port of Cherbourg.
		Moreover, during the period of our consolidation in the Cotentin the Germans would have time to reinforce their coastal troops in the Caen area, rendering a subsequent amphibious assault in that area much more difficult.
	www.go2war2.nl /artikel/998/2 (2954 words)

	Utah Beach
		Utah Beach was the furthest west of the five beaches designated for the D-Day landings in June 1944.
		Located at the base of the Cotentin Peninsula, it was added by General Dwight Eisenhower to the original D-Day plan to ensure the early capture of the vital port of Cherbourg, at the north of the peninsula.
		Though the war in the Cotentin Peninsula was not yet over, the achievements at Utah were immense, even if Nature had given a helping hand.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /utah_beach.htm (592 words)

	Normandy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The quintessential image of Normandy is of a lush, pastoral region of apple orchards and contented cows, cider and pungent cheese - but the region also spans the windswept beaches of the Cotentin and the wooded banks of the Seine valley.
		Memory of another invasion, the D-Day landings of 1944, still linger along the Côte de Nacre and the Cotentin peninsula.
		The Cotentin peninsula is capped by the port of Cherbourg, still a strategic naval base.
	www.franceway.com /regions/normandi/intro.htm (320 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Normandy 1944
		Drop zone A was to the west of Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, while D and C were west and southwest of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont. Drop zones for the 82nd Division were labeled N, O, and T; they were positioned north of the Douve River and on either side of its principal tributary, the Merderet—all to the west of Sainte-Mère-Église.
		Courtesy of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. German forces in the Cotentin capable of countering the airborne divisions were two regiments from the 91st Division (including one battalion of tanks) and the 6th Parachute Regiment.
		The main defense of the Cotentin, however, was natural: the flooding of lowlands and marshes, as controlled by a lock near the mouth of the Douve River at La Barquette, just north of Carentan.
	search.eb.com /dday/article?tocId=236195 (805 words)

	4th Infantry Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 4th was assigned to conduct the initial D-Day landings on Utah Beach, at the western most end of the invasion area on the Cotentin Peninsula.
		The 8th Infantry Regiment of the division was to conduct the initial assault, reinforced with an attached battalion of the 22nd Infantry Regiment.
		The seizure of the westward invasion area was crucial in the success of Operation Overlord and enabled the American forces to subsequently take the entire Cotentin Peninsula by the end of June.
	www.normandyallies.org /4hist.htm (460 words)

	The battle of the Cotentin and the fall of Cherbourg
		The battle of the Cotentin and the fall of Cherbourg
		Undaunted, the Allies launched another attack, this time towards the western coast of the Cotentin Peninsula, where the enemy was least expecting them.
		A few days after that, the PLUTO undersea pipeline was laid, carrying oil from the Isle of Wight to supply the terminal at Querqueville.
	www.normandiememoire.com /NM60Anglais/2_histo4/histo4_p02_gb.htm (533 words)

	Normandy D-Day Beaches : Omaha Beach, Utah Beach - History of the Battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Famously, one parachutist got stuck on the church tower (memorably recreated in the 1960 film the Longest Day), a dummy is strung up each summer to recall the event, and a stained-glass window inside the church honors American paratroopers.
		The Musée des Troupes Aéroportées (Airborne Troops Museum), built behind the church in 1964 in the form of an open parachute, houses documents, maps, mementos, and one of the Waco CG4A gliders used to drop troops.
		Head east on D 67 from Ste-Mère to Utah Beach, which being sheltered from the Atlantic winds by the Cotentin Peninsula and surveyed by lowly sand dunes rather than rocky cliffs, proved easier to attack than Omaha.
	www.parisbestlodge.com /normandybeaches2.html (573 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Peninsula [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Iberian Peninsula, encompassing the whole of Spain and Portugal
		Korean peninsula, encompassing North Korea and South Korea
		Delmarva Peninsula, encompassing parts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia
	encyclozine.com /Peninsula (260 words)

	Cotentin - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cotentin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It has dockyards at Cherbourg, a nuclear power station at Flamanville, and a nuclear-waste treatment plant at Beaumont-Hague.
		In World War II, the Cotentin peninsula was the scene of fierce fighting in the Battle of Normandy in July 1944.
		Tourville, Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, comte de Tourville
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Cotentin (131 words)

	Cotentin - netlexikon
		Am südlichen Ende der Westküste des Cotentin grenzt die Normandie and die Bretagne; hier befindet sich das Weltkulturerbe Mont-Saint-Michel.
		Die größte Stadt auf dem Cotentin ist Cherbourg.
		Weitere Orte auf dem Cotentin sind (Auswahl): Coutances, Barfleur, Saint-Lô, Bricquebec, Granville, Barneville-Carteret, Carentan, Valognes, Avranches.
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Cotentin.html (144 words)

	Utah Beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The World War II Utah Beach American Memorial is located at the termination of Highway N-13D, approximately a mile and a half northeast of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont (Manche), France.
		This monument commemorates the achievements of the American Forces of the VII Corps who landed and fought in the liberation of the Cotentin Peninsula from June 6, 1944 to July 1, 1944.
		The memorial consists of a red granite obelisk surrounded by a small developed park overlooking the historic sand dunes of Utah Beach, one of the two American landing beaches during the Normandy Invasion of June 6, 1944.
	www.abmc.gov /ut.htm (96 words)

	101st Airborne Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 101st Airborne's mission was to parachute into the interior of the Cotentin Peninsula and prevent German troops from reinforcing those facing the main Allied landing force on Utah Beach.
		In addition, it was to secure the causeways exiting Utah Beach for the main force to use as it drove inland from the beachhead.
		The confusion this caused eventually aided the airborne units, as the Germans could not determine the number or scope of the landings, and were actually more confused than the paratroopers.
	www.normandyallies.org /101hist.htm (518 words)

	508th's Map Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		See where the 508th, and the enemy, were located before and during their time in battle.
		Enemy Forces in Cotentin Peninsula as estimated prior to D-Day
		Enemy Forces in Cotentin Peninsula as they actually were on D-Day
	www.508pir.org /odessey/map_case.htm (47 words)

	Lower Normandy - Travel Guide, Photos, Hotels
		Cattle-rearing area, Lower Normandy is a region of green landscapes.
		Meadows with apple trees in the Auge county, hedged farmlands and swamp of the Cotentin peninsula, greens pastures where the Norman cows graze, the Perche forests, but also the cliffs and long sandy beaches of the coast, offer a magnificent color palette.
		Place of History and Traditions, Lower Normandy is also a good destination for leisure activities and relaxation, with its 470 kilometers of coasts, its renowned sea resorts, its great Nature convenient to strolls, its Regional Natural reserves, and its local high-quality products.
	www.france-voyage.com /english/regions/basse-normandie.php (240 words)

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