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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... Assault Training , Dartmoor , 1943 Open - air haircut for soldier of the 116th Infantry Regiment Assault Training at Ivybridge Tank landing , Assault Training Center , Woolacombe Men of 116th Infantry Regiment practicing disembarkation ...
... assault on enemy positions . Distinguished Service Cross , GO 29 , HQ , First United States Army , June 29 , 1944 . 1st Lt. ROBERT C. HARGROVE , 01296853 ; his men pinned down in initial assault on coast of France , exposed himself to ...
... assault on coast of France , he found himself in a group of soldiers also separated from their units . Upon discov- ering an enemy pillbox from which intense fire was emanating , led this group on an assault of the pillbox and destroyed ...
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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