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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... front knew the realities of the military situation . There was little possibility of defense in depth , and for the most part the invasion would have to be stopped at the waterline . Failure to do so would result in the formation of an ...
... front of a town . c . Anti - tank ditches are sometimes found in front of beach strong points of all types , on the seaward side of anti - tank or sea walls along the front of towns , and surrounding strong points containing RDF and ...
... front , and two huge pockets in the front , and two huge pockets in the back . As a rifle- man I had my normal allotment of M1 ammo , sixty rounds plus three bandoleers around my neck , three fragmentation grenades , one smoke grenade ...
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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