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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... going until he stopped in front of the MP station . He told me to get out , that I was going to spend the night inside . I couldn't believe he was going to arrest me . I was so mad I could have killed him . I started to jump out and run ...
... going to be magnified and are going to give way to incidents that you might at first view as chaotic . The air and naval bombardment and the artillery support are reassuring . But you are going to find confusion . The landing craft aren't ...
... going on . Com- pany A had hit the beach first and then Company B. Things didn't seem too bad from where we were , and Captain Shilling said , “ See , I told you it was going to be easy . " But when we went in , they threw everything at ...
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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