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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... bombing . Steele's parachute caught on the steeple of the local church and he was trapped there as his comrades were shot down around him . Wounded , he played dead until he was eventually brought in and captured by the German troops ...
... bombers . This would prevent use of the rail network to bring German armored units from the interior to the coast . Allied fighter bombers would later ensure that use of the road network was heavily curtailed , and it remained a ...
... bombing that missed most of its primary targets . Given that , I didn't want to glamorize what had happened , so I tried to be as brutally honest as I could . " I could . " 25 In the opening section of a film about the role 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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