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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... beach- head . The American 101st and 82nd airborne divisions would cover the western flank formed by Utah Beach ; and the British 6th Airborne Division would cover Sword Beach , which formed the eastern flank of the landings . Regiments ...
... Sword Beach between St. Aubin sur Mer and the mouth of the river Orne . In one of the leading landing craft , under heavy fire from the beach , Major C.K. King had read his men the famous call - to - arms speech before the battle of ...
... Sword Beach , 66 , 107 Teague , Arthur S. See 22nd U.S. Parachute Infantry Regiment Tennessee , 7 , 15 The Longest Day , xix , 130 Thouars , 62 Tribolet , Col. Hervey A. See 22nd U.S. Parachute Infantry Regiment U.S. Army Air Force , 41 ...
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 |
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