One bazooka. One telephone pole for cover. Three tanks closing in at thirty yards.
D-Day, four in the afternoon. Most of the company had already pulled back. Two guys from the 505th PIR stayed at La Fière Bridge with a tube full of rockets and nowhere to run. The causeway was straight, the marsh was flooded on both sides, and two hundred German infantry were walking right behind those tanks.
What happened in the next four minutes broke every rule the Army ever wrote about how bazooka teams are supposed to fight. What happened after they ran out of rockets — that part is harder to believe.
One of them made a decision that should have killed him on the spot. It didn't. And it changed everything.
The Army's own historian called this bridge "probably the bloodiest small unit struggle in the experience of American arms." Most people have never heard of it.
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