Later that day, Easy Company was given the task of silencing an artillery battery at the estate of Brécourt Manor, half a mile (1 km) north of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont and southwest of Utah Beach, where four 105 mm howitzers fired down onto a causeway exit off the beach and prevented the U.S. 4th Infantry Division from moving further inland. In the subsequent assault on Brécourt Manor, Lipton, teamed with Sergeant Mike Ranney, climbed a tree at some distance, and using an M1 carbine, shot a German soldier defending the battery. His actions during the assault earned him his first Bronze Star.