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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... British and Canadian forces similarly trained for the invasion that they would spearhead , with the British landing on two beaches in Normandy , the Americans two , and the Canadians one . In the meantime American troops spent their ...
... British government , the implicit racism of the upper levels of British society was very evident . A paper by the Home Secretary in October 1942 did not pull its punches . I am fully conscious that a difficult social problem might be ...
... British society , there was continued outrage at the treatment of the African - American and at the way in which the racial politics of the American South were allowed to intrude into British life . This was despite attempts by some ...
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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