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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... raids against the coast of enemy - occupied Europe . For example , in September 1943 they were involved in a raid against an enemy radar station on the Ile d'Ouessans . This small island off the coast of Brittany had a radar station and ...
... raid approaching London . The flights of C - 47s took avoiding action that in some cases set them on a collision course with other flights . The exercise descended into chaos as some troop- ers jumped too low , at too great an airspeed ...
... raid shelters , empty except during raids , provided a myriad of opportunities for prostitutes and their wealthy clientele . Two Portsmouth - based prostitutes were convicted of violating a secure area in Newton Abbot in May 1944. In ...
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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