I don’t think this in Cherboug ,British and Canadian captured it, not US troops
Clintonmaulder
You’re thinking of Caen
ConwayCaptain
Yanks captured Cherbourg as their landing beaches were on the right and they wheeled right to capture Cherbourg and St Mere Eglise then south to Rennes.
The Brits and Canadians on the left of the line went for Caen and were held up and then the Falaise pocket