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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 21
... boat alongside had done the same and we could easily see the awful visage on those boats . [ Back at Portland ] American ambulances manned by colored GIs were waiting to load the bodies and at first they attempted to carry two on a ...
... boats steaming along their prescribed lanes and hitting precisely at H- hour 0630. You would have assumed that something was wrong and you would have been right . 8 Most of the 116th Infantry Regiment in the first wave would not hit ...
... boats on our sides . They waved in return . The boat fell away below me , and I squeezed the CO2 tubes in my life belt . Just as I did the buckle broke and it popped away . I turned to grab the man behind me . I was going under . I ...
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 | |
15 other sections not shown