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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... forces lay in readiness to respond to any attack , but such was the nature of the German high command , with Hitler exercising his dominance over his generals , that problems of coordination would inevitably arise in the event of ...
... forces holding the Manor of La Fiere , which dominated the other end of the causeway . An exchange of orange signals from both ends of the causeway indicated that American forces were in control of the vital crossing . How- ever , along ...
... forces covering the eastern flank of the landing . The advance had , however , not been as swift as anticipated . The city of Caen had not been captured as had been anticipated in the landing plan . Moreover , strong German forces lay ...
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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