Destination Normandy: Three American Regiments on D-DayBennett collects oral histories from men of three United States regiments that participated in the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment was the most widely scattered of the American parachute infantry regiments to be dropped on D-Day. However, the efforts of 180 men to stop the advance of an SS Panzer Grenadier division largely have been ignored outside of France. The 116th Infantry Regiment received the highest number of casualties on Omaha Beach of any Allied unit on D-Day. Stationed in England through most of the war, it had been the butt of jokes while other regiments did the fighting and dying in North Africa and the Mediterranean; that changed on June 6, 1944. And the 22nd Infantry Regiment, a unit that had fought in almost every campaign waged by the U.S. Army since 1812, came ashore on Utah Beach quite easily before getting embroiled in a series of savage fights to cross the marshland behind the beach and to capture the German heavy batteries to the north. |
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... Amfreville . The strength of the group was augmented by another 30 troopers from Company D. The decision to march on Amfreville was motivated by the fact that Timmes could hear firing coming from that direction . ICI COMBATTIT Le ...
... Amfreville , the Timmes group began to receive a growing volume of fire from the village . Timmes realized that the gunfire he had heard earlier was directed at him and his group . The undisciplined attempt by the enemy to engage him at ...
... Amfreville . Like Timmes , the Millett group had come under heavy fire from the town . Rather than withdraw , as Timmes proceeded to do , Millett decided to hold his position . His force had grown steadily until it numbered some 250 men ...
Contents
Operation Bolero and the Clash of Cultures | 1 |
Three Regiments and the Mind of the | 7 |
Early Training and the Buildup to June 6 1944 | 19 |
Copyright | |
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