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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... suggested that the battle was down to infantrymen who gave each other little quarter . In his book Overlord ... suggest that some Allied units executed prisoners routinely . " The link between individuals taking the decision to kill and ...
... suggests that some of those units that would spearhead the seaborne assault were also operating under similar instructions and that men did obey them . After D - Day , one GI in the 22nd Infantry Regiment wrote in his journal about ...
... suggested that at least 36 men were drowned in the initial drop , and 63 men were abandoned to the enemy as a result of injuries sustained in jumping . Losses among battalion commanders were extremely heavy . Of the twelve battalion ...
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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