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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... night I reported to the MP Station in the Center of Ivybridge and a regular MP and I started our tour of duty at 6pm when the black engineers were coming in for their night on the town . All was going well until around 9pm when a fight ...
... night the 505th had its officer patrols armed . The negroes resented this alleging that the white officers intended ... night the trouble escalated , and it took strong intervention from divisional officers over several nights to calm ...
... night even in the company of three or four others . Last night in Torquay a quartet of white sol- diers was cornered by fifteen colored and beaten up in the dark . It happens that they indiscriminately picked on four of impeccable ...
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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