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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... remained on active ser- vice until May 1919 when the division returned to the United States and was stood down . During the twenties and thirties the component elements of the 29th Division were kept busy with training for war . Routine ...
... remained segregated between black and white , and the resulting tensions frequently erupted into violence . The summer of 1943 witnessed widespread race rioting across the United States . Los Angeles , Detroit , New York , and other ...
... remained consider- able . Creek's force from the 507th was under orders to fall back to La Fiere if pushed out of Chef - du - Pont ; and if La Fiere fell , the defenders who remained were to retreat to St. Mere Eglise . The 505th ...
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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