06-18-2008, 06:04 AM
The intersection originally got it's name from the fact that on 7 June, 1944, a American light tank (M-5) of Company 'D', 70th Tank Battalion, was knocked-out nearly in front of the large house and sat there for days afterward. The burned body of the tank commander could still be seen in the turret, and soldiers started to use it as a reference point, saying, "go to the corner where the dead man is in the tank".
This was soon shortened to 'Dead Man's Corner'.
On the website "trigger time" who deals exclusivly withe the history of the 101st AB, it is said, that the tankkiller was a Panzerfaust, not an 88mm, as it was belived at.
The pic is the view down the Purple Heart Lane to Carentan
