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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... thing . They will do all right . 13 That said , Gavin had his doubts over some of the leadership within the 507th ... things could still go badly wrong . Exercise Eagle on the night of May 12-13 was rescheduled as a major practice for ...
... things . While hindsight is wonderful , and comparison difficult , two things are certain : 1. American tactical doctrine on June 6 called for a degree of precision that one could not expect in war . There was too little slack built ...
... things were going badly wrong on Omaha Beach things were substantially different to the west on Utah Beach , the other American landing zone . Although seven of the landing craft carrying the first wave of the 4th Infantry Division were ...
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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