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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... became home to the officers of the Third Battalion . Many of the rooms occupied by the men of the regiment had sea views . Portrush was a sizeable town , and passes were available to the cities of Coler- aine and Belfast . A public ...
... became so common place that many people felt forced to take sides , usually with the black GI . British disapproval became even more evident when white GIs were involved in violence against some of the empire's citizens of color , who ...
... became more than just a badly injured soldier . Described as “ Iron Mike , " he became a potent symbol of the airborne elite . His experiences , and perhaps the actions of his com- rades , became a key element in the mythos of the ...
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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