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The 4th Infantry Division was part of the VII Corps landed in an area that is bounded on the south and west by the Douve and Merdet. These rivers impacted the area of operations for the 4th and one of their first ojectives, Montebourg.
Official 4th Infantry Division history. Source U.S. National Archives