HOW ONE FARMER'S WATER TOWER NEST SILENCED A GERMAN MG 42 TEAM
Автор: patriot wars
Загружено: 2025-11-13
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At dawn on June 14th, 1944—eight days after D-Day—an MG-42 hidden atop a fortified French water tower had stalled the 101st Airborne for six brutal days. Eleven Americans were already dead. Three assaults had failed. Artillery couldn’t crack the tower’s stone base, and every road toward Carentan ran straight through its killing zone. The position was perfect. Untouchable. A single German gun crew was holding back an entire company.
This documentary tells the real story of Staff Sergeant James Callahan, a quiet Iowa farm kid who solved the impossible without firing a single shot. Using nothing but patience, night crawling, and a piece of farm logic learned in a cornfield, Callahan slipped inside the tower, collapsed the crew’s only ladder, and turned a fortress into a trap. By noon, dehydration and isolation broke the MG-42 team. By 1:15 PM, they surrendered.
What followed reshaped Allied tactics across Normandy—proof that logistics, patience, and battlefield problem-solving could defeat firepower. This is the forgotten story of the “Water Tower Nest” and how one farmer’s son opened the road to Carentan.
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