<P> After assembling on the ground, the men of E Company disabled a battery of four German heavy guns on D - Day that threatened forces coming along Causeway 2 . A town in France called Carentan was crucial for American soldiers to capture because it would link Omaha and Utah beaches together so the soldiers could move equipment through . The Germans knew that so they wanted to keep the town out of allied hands . In one of Donald Malarkey's articles he stated that Lieutenant Winters made him mortar sergeant of second platoon . E Company, along with Dog and Fox Companies, were walking down the road to Carentan when they came to an intersection and one or two German machine gun teams suddenly started firing on them . Mortars and tanks soon joined the fight . The American soldiers all jumped into ditches for cover . Winters saw this and as Malarkey states, Winters "got hotter than I've ever seen him ." It was a fast attack, at the end of which Malarkey states that he could hear moans and groans of wounded soldiers and occasional gun shots . Also at the end of the battle Winters was slightly wounded in his lower right leg by a ricocheting bullet fragment . The Germans mounted a counterattack, but 2nd battalion held onto Carentan . By the time the company was pulled off the line, they had taken 65 casualties including 22 KIA, 17 of which including their CO and 1stSgt, who were killed on D - day when their plane was shot down . </P> <P> E Company was assigned to support the British forces around Eindhoven, by defending the roads and bridges, so that the British armored divisions could advance into Arnhem and force a crossing over the major bridge across the Rhine River in September 1944 . </P> <P> E Company landed on its designated drop zone in the Sonsche Forest, north west of Son and marched down the road into Son behind the 2nd Battalion's other two companies . When the 2nd Battalion reached the Son Bridge they were met by enemy harassing fire whilst the bridge was destroyed by the Germans . After the Regiment's engineers constructed a makeshift crossing, E and the rest of the 506th moved out for Eindhoven . These events were omitted from the Band of Brothers series, with E having been portrayed as landing in the Netherlands and then marching into Eindhoven to join up with the British Army advancing from the south . </P> <P> On 19 September, the company departed for Helmond accompanied by six Cromwell tanks of the British 11th Armoured Division . Their advance was halted by the German 107th Panzer Brigade outside Nuenen and they were forced to retreat to Tongelre . During the days following the link up, E Company successfully defended the towns of Veghel and Uden until XXX Corps infantry took up the task of defending the area . As Market Garden progressed, the company and the rest of the 101st joined the 82nd Airborne on "the island" north of Nijmegen . </P>

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