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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 34
... Britain . They were also issued with A Short Guide to Life in Great Britain . The guide advised that contrary to American folklore , the British were reserved but not unfriendly , and that all troops had to behave in a diplomatic manner ...
... Britain : ' The serious study both of American history and institutions and of contem- porary America is notable in Britain by its absence ' . " The most practical outcome of these concerns was the British equivalent of A Short Guide to ...
... Britain generated by segregation was for the American military to limit the number of African - Americans coming to Great Britain . Indeed , concerns about the potential for racial violence led to a certain reluctance to deploy black ...
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 | |
15 other sections not shown