4 Infantry Division (USA) attack Quineville—Montebourg Ridge

The 4th Infantry Division attacked northwards to secure the Quineville—Montebourg Ridge.
Possession of this terrain feature would push German artillery out of range of the beaches and compromise their best defensive positions in the approach to Cherbourg.
Much of the ground en route was swampy, and the rest featured strong points built into the formidable Norman bocage.
The Germans had an unusually large concentration of artillery in the Cotentin Peninsula, and attacks proved difficult and costly.
The division nevertheless pushed on, a little at a time.

Private Ralph G.Riley, for example, earned the Distinguished Service Cross for crawling up to a blockhouse engineers had dynamited several times without effect, working his flamethrower into an aperture proximate to enemy ammunition, and setting off explosions that forced the surrender of the entire position.

By 13 July the division had outflanked both Quineville and Montebourg and was astride the ridge between them.