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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... PFC William G. Perdue , 33529530 Pvt . Wallace F. Pinkham , 31252636 PFC Everett K. Polley , 35651450 PFC Jack G. Powers , 20363657 Pfd George ( NMI ) Pricopoulos , 11017737 PFC Joe W. Pullen , 34537334 Pvt . Miguel Ramon , 35558287 Pvt ...
... William E. Schools , 33132231 PFC Forrest C. Shope , 33153200 Pvt . Edward J. Siemiion , 36827929 PFC George H. Simmons , 33007718 Pvt . Johnnie Singleton , 35803725 Pvt ... PFC John E. Wise , 33266626 PFC Anthony J. Wlodarek APPENDIX 1 147.
... PFC Richard J. Thompson , 32304077 PFC William F. Stone , 32706084 PFC Robert J. Scott , 32180510 Pvt . Walter D. Sink , 20364257 Pvt . George ( NMI ) Pisar , 32776793 Pvt . Bernard G. Brush , 36853089 PFC Forest L. Rosamond , 34613295 ...
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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