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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... Strategic Studies and Director , Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies , Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , The Johns Hopkins University ( U.S.A. ) Anthony H. Cordesman , Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy ...
... strategic points that would facilitate a speedy advance beyond the beachhead . The paratroopers would land several hours before the main amphibious landings . That meant landing in the dark , which would inevi- tably have severe ...
... strategic importance of Cauquigny showed how long it took for many to come to terms with the geography of a battlefield that was radi- cally different from that promised in preinvasion briefings . At least chance served to build up the ...
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 |
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