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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... effect of making the 29th Division an almost solely Virginia- Maryland affair . The division received new equipment , such as 105 - mm guns for the artillery . The regiment's stay at Fort Meade saw other transformations . Life at the ...
... effect , the British used armor and technology to do part of the job assigned to the U.S. infantry on June 6 ... effects of aerial bombardment to the landing positions of individual companies , went wrong . Given the command - and ...
... effect . A 40 - pound charge of TNT was then set off against the back door . Again there was no visible effect . A second charge was laid . When it exploded , it knocked uncon- scious the men who had laid it because they had not been ...
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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