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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... lost and alone . Searching vainly for the rest of his stick , he encountered mor- tar men and machine gunners from his unit , the Third Battalion of the 507th . They had managed to recover some of the bundles of heavy equipment that had ...
... lost . We continued down the road and finally ran into some more troopers , also lost . By this time we had a mighty fighting force of six troopers . In the distance we could see the outline of a church steeple . So we decided to head ...
... lost an astonishing array of equipment , including 13 DUKWs , seven trucks , a piper cub spotter aircraft , and 11 howitzers . It also lost seven officers , including the commanding officer , and 41 enlisted men . MacIntosh found the ...
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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