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After landing on 6 June, Allied forces slowly expanded their beachhead and overran the Cotentin Peninsula, capturing the port of Cherbourg.
During the first six days of the Normandy Campaign, the various invasion beaches were linked together in a continuous front.

​The deepest Allied penetration was at Caumont shown on the following map, seized by the US First Infantry Division on 13 June.
Normandy Campaign Timeline, June 1944:
  • 6 June - Operation Overlord, D-Day Allied invasion, begins.
  • 7 June - Bayeux captured.
  • 11 June - Carentan captured.
  • 14 June - XIX Corps, US First Army goes operational.
  • 14 June - Free French leader Charles DeGaulle visits Bayeux after four years in exile.
  • 15 June - VIII Corps, US First Army goes operational.
  • 17 June - US First Army cuts off Cotentin Peninsula.
  • 19-21 June - US 
  • 27 June - Cherbourg, the first large port, seized.
  • 30 June - German resistance in Cotentin Peninsula ends.
Normandy Jun-Jul 1944
Normandy, June - July 1944
​Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead - The ETO > Normandy Campaign > Normandy, June 1944:
  • Taken from the bigpigeon.us WWII Dead module.​​
03-01- The ETO > Normandy Campaign > Normandy, June 1944: (four dead, updated 20 Dec 2022)
† Aultz, Dorsey Everet, SN 37-189-141, US Army, Pott. Co.
  • Co. I, 359th Inf. Regt., 90th Inf. Div., VII Corps, assigned to Third Army, attached to First Army; KIA 13 Jun 1944 near Picauville, SW of St. Mere Eglise, Normandy, France; The ETO > Normandy Campaign > Normandy, June 1944.
† Deitchler, Edgar Kay, SN 37-118-985, US Army, Mills Co.
  • 357th Inf. Regt., 90th Inf. Div., VIII Corps, assigned to Third Army, attached to First Army; KIA 17 Jun 1944, near Gourbesville, W. of St. Mere Eglise, Normandy, France; The ETO > Normandy Campaign > Normandy, June 1944.
† Pedersen, Oscar Holst (served as Holst, Oscar), SN 37-126-291, US Army, Pott. Co.
  • b. 4 Apr 1914 Herning, Midtjylland, Denmark; s/o Jens Holst Pedersen & Elsie Marie Jensen; immigrated to Co. Bluffs; b/o Henry H. Peterson of Co. Bluffs; bur. Herning Kirkegaard, Denmark.
  • Battery B, 320th Glider FA Bn., 82nd Airborne Div.; KIA 18 Jun 1944, near Douve River W of Ste Mere-Eglise, Normandy, France; The ETO > Normandy Campaign > Normandy, June 1944.
† Plagge, Harold W., SN O-1006609, US Army, Lake Co., IL
  • 746th Tank Bn.; DOW 9 Jun 1944 near Utah Beach, Normandy, France; The ETO > Normandy Campaign > Normandy, June 1944.