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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... inland to allow American troops to cut off the Cotentin Peninsula from the rest of France . Fears about the length of time it might take for troops from the beachhead to link up with the 82nd led to a late change in the landing plan ...
... inland . If U.S. airborne forces could not seize the causeways that ran through the flooded area , then the advance of the 4th Infantry Division might stall on the beach . The 116th Infantry Regiment's assault on Omaha Beach was led by ...
... enemy artillery fire . To relieve them from it would take several more days , as units such as the 22nd Infantry Regiment pushed further inland . 11 The Drive Inland and the Crossing of the Merderet 108 DESTINATION NORMANDY.
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 |
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