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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... Panzer Grena- dier Division were exploring the back roads to and from Carentan . In so doing they had already tangled with the mixed force under Captain Phillips in the vicinity of St. George de Bohon . Two German motorcyclists fired ...
... Panzer Grenadiers captured the aid station that had been set up in the church . Some 19 soldiers were in the station . Captain Sophain and probably all the members of the medical detachment were busy ministering to the needs of wounded ...
... Panzer Grenadier , 62-64 , 121-25 , 134 ; Das Reich , 126 , 134 ; Gestapo , xix , 83 , 133 ; Hitler Jugend , 126 , 133 ; SS , xix , 61 , 78 , 124 Gettysburg , 131 Gold Beach , 66 , 107 Graignes . See Normandy Heye , Vice - Admiral ...
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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