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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... James R. Reed , 38514997 PFC John F. Reynolds 20363700 PFC Garnet L. Rinker Jr. , 33133611 PFC Pearl M. Robertson , 20364693 PFC Alex ( NMI ) Rosenthal , 36415403 PFC Frank ( NMI ) Sadusky , 31274604 PFC Bartolameo ( NMI ) Satti ...
... James H. Fiore , Vincinzo V. Fischer , Robert W. Fowler , James H. July 4 , 1944 June 10 , 1944 June 6 , 1944 June 7 , 1944 Foster , Cleo C. June 22 , 1944 Fought , Edgar R. July 11 , 1944 Fradet , James L. June 21 , 1944 Francis ...
... James M. Jr. June 18 , 1944 Lozich , Anthony T. June 16 , 1944 Lynn , Romeo C. June 9 , 1944 Lyons , James June 16 , 1944 MacDonald , Richard E. June 14 , 1944 MacGregor , Ian D. July 5 , 1944 Manderscheidt , Francis W. June 8 , 1944 ...
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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