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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... significant threat thanks to its motor - torpedo boats , sub- marines , and coastal artillery . Since 1943 Germany had been developing a midget submarine arm under Vice - Admiral Hellmuth Heye that , it was hoped , could make effective ...
... significant to the tactics that eventually won the day on Omaha Beach on June 6 that the 116th Infantry Regiment had ... significance of the tank in modern warfare in 1940. For D - Day they developed a range of specialist armored ...
... significant , especially in light of Exercise Tiger . Only Ger- man land forces had achieved any real success in opposing Allied ambitions . On the eastern flank of the landings , the 3rd British Infantry Division had come ashore on ...
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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