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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... target . The result was that paratroopers landed across southern England as far as nine miles away from their drop zones . Some 500 of them sustained injuries ( thankfully , mostly minor ) . More seriously , two aircraft were lost in ...
... target of any aggression whatever , whether on the march , in billet or anything of that kind , the commander is required to take immediate independent countermeasures on his own authority . These include : · · Immediately answering ...
... target coastal defense installations . The French railroad network would be disrupted by Allied medium and heavy bombers . This would prevent use of the rail network to bring German armored units from the interior to the coast . Allied ...
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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