The D-Day drop left the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment scattered across a larger area than anticipated. Long before dawn, the 150 men of HQ Company, 3rd Battalion landed fully fifteen miles north of their landing zone. When false dawn arrived, they began working their way out of the swamps south of Carentan to a church located on a nearby hilltop in Graignes. Recon patrols found no Germans between themselves and Carentan, four and a half miles away. Knowing his mission was to link up with the rest of 3rd Battalion Captain Leroy D. “Dave” Brummitt had planned to led his troops northward that night until they reached the rest of their unit. When Major Charles D. Johnston arrived and took command, he decided to defend Graignes. The paratroopers were assigned positions and waited for events to unfold. Throughout Saturday June 10th small German probes were easily driven off. The next morning was quiet until gunfire promptly ended Mass for the paratroopers in attendance. That attack was again quickly driven off but the Germans would be back.

At the time of the Allied invasion, 17th SS Panzer Grenadier had been located far from Normandy and while their lead elements had arrived most of their artillery was still far to the rear. When the militia entered combat at 1400 hours it appears that only two artillery pieces were available to support them. It was not enough; although the American paratroopers were hard-pressed for a spell this effort was also repulsed. At 1900 the two guns opened up again and this time one of the rounds destroyed the observation post in the church's belfry hampering the American mortars’ effectiveness. This emboldened the SS men to close with the defenders as darkness fell. It was soon all over but a hundred or more paratroopers slipped away to the south to fight another day. Once the SS had the town, they murdered both the parish priest and the two elderly women who took care of the rectory as well as 41 other civilians. All of the wounded American paratroopers including medical personnel at the aid station in the church were murdered in addition to three officers pulled from the rubble of the Boys School, who were tortured for several hours before finally being put to death.

There is a redundancy in the victory point awards. Ignore the victory awards point for hexes 0803 and 0804.

Counters from Black SS may be used in place of those for Dishonor Before Death.