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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... empire , and a drive on Berlin , could the end of the war be guaranteed . This was despite the champions of heavy bombing , who argued that Hitler could be defeated through airpower and a costly land campaign avoided . The talks were ...
... empire . Instead the British people would be asked to be careful , tactful , and respectful . In practice it was a policy that many British people could not follow . Incidents of racial violence and discrimination between black and ...
... Empire Might Live . " The attitudes of white GIs were firmly on the public agenda , even if they did not register at the political level . 6 Within British society , there was continued outrage at the treatment of the African - American ...
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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