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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... plan involving aircraft , ships , mobile field hospitals , hospital trains , and hospitals in the United Kingdom could then be worked out . This was one of many problems that the planners needed to address . Once plans had been ...
... plans were to convert several bar- racks in southern England to hospital use . In total 90,864 beds , at a cost of ... plan was worked out whereby casualties requiring more than 180 days ' treatment would be taken back to the United ...
... plans , which had been developed with meticulous care . As General Gavin recorded in his diary on May 27 : " Meeting of the regt COs at which time the new situation was outlined to them . Lots of work . These damn changes . Complete ...
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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