Battle of Bloody Gulch

Battle of Bloody Gulch
Part of the Battle of Carentan and the Battle for Normandy
The Battle of Carentan
Date 13 June 1944 Location Manoir de Donville, Méautis, Normandy, France Result American victory Successful defense of Carentan. German counterattack repulsed.
Belligerents
United States	Germany
Commanders and leaders
Maxwell D. Taylor Howard R. Johnson John H. Michaelis Robert F. Sink	Friedrich von der Heydte
Strength
3 parachute infantry regiments 60 tanks (2nd Armored Division)[1]	1 parachute infantry battalion 1 Waffen SS motorized division 12 tanks[1]
Casualties and losses
32 killed 73 wounded 4 tanks destroyed	43 killed 89 wounded 2 tanks destroyed

The Battle of Bloody Gulch took place around the Manoir de Donville or Hill 30 (U.S. Army designation), about 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Carentan in Normandy, France, on June 13, 1944.

It involved elements of the German 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division and 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment, and the American 501st, 502nd, and 506th Parachute Infantry Regiments (PIR) of the 101st Airborne Division, reinforced by elements of the 2nd Armored Division and the 29th Infantry Division.

During the battle, the manor house of Manoir de Donville was the headquarters of the German forces. American soldiers nicknamed the road running past the manor "Bloody Gulch", after a place mentioned in the popular western movie Destry Rides Again.