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 parachute infantry battalion; 1 Waffen SS motorized division; 12 tanks
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), approximately 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.

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