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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... later wrote : GI's training had started off in a fumbling way , for there was only a vague idea of what we had to do . At first , it was all conducted on land , using homemade mock - ups of land- ing craft . Dartmoor was probably as ...
... later recalled : " We caught them from a cross - fire from both sides of the road and they emptied fast . The Germans who weren't killed in the trucks were running down the road madly . One of our men jumped on the lead truck , using ...
... later be adjusted to have been fatalities . For most families of the missing men from the 507th , the liberation of the German prisoner- of - war camps in 1945 would not produce a happy ending . Instead it would be left to the army to ...
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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