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Six days after D-Day, during the Battle of Normandy, the five Allied landing groups of over 300,000 were able to link up and form a single continues solid front across northwestern France after a bitter fight to capture Carentan, between airborne forces of the United States Army and the German Wehrmacht. The deepest Allied penetration point was southwest of Bayeux, where the allies had driven nearly 15 miles (25 km) inland.