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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... miles southwest of the critical route center of Carentan . At the base of the Cotentin Peninusula , Carentan occupied a key strategic position covering the coast road and sitting between Utah and Omaha beaches . Carentan , however , was ...
... miles of enemy- held territory lay between the forces on Gold Beach and the easternmost section of Omaha Beach held by the U.S. 1st Infantry Division . Despite the slaughter on Omaha Beach in the first few hours of the landing , by the ...
... miles from American lines , the forces at Graignes could play a valuable role in harassing the enemy rear and in conducting ambushes . This was despite the suggestions of Captain Brummitt , who on June 6 came up with a plan for a night ...
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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