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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... paratrooper got down to the riverbank and were able to pull the badly wounded colonel out of the water . Ostburg would live , but he was out of action for the duration of the fight at Chef - du - Pont . With the paratroopers on the ...
... paratroopers ] had lost . " Ginnette , along with the other children of the commune , would receive American chocolate and chewing gum , which the paratroopers gladly shared with their hosts . At first the paratroopers were suspicious ...
... paratroopers , who outmaneuvered the motorcyclists and brought them down . Phillips went to inspect one of the Germans who lay on the road and whom he had brought down with his carbine . The man was still alive but mortally wounded ...
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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