9 Infantry Division (USA) near Octeville

The 9th Infantry Division, in concert with the 4th and 79th Infantry Divisions, attacked to seize Cherbourg.
The enemy was well fortified and put up fierce resistance.
The 9th Infantry Division oriented on the village of Octeville and several nearby forts on high ground west of the city.
It tightly integrated artillery, air strikes, tanks, engineers and infantry into attacks on one strong point after another as its advance progressed.
By 26 June infantrymen from the division fought their way into the underground command post of the German commander in Cherbourg, Generalleutnant Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben, and captured him with 800 others.
The division then cleared its sector in house-to-house fighting wherein mines and booby traps proved as great a threat as enemy firepower.
When Cherbourg itself fell, the division turned its attention to reducing strong points around the perimeter bypassed during the advance.
Six thousand holdouts in the Cap de la Hague required 23 a tough three-day battle before they were finally subdued.