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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... Graignes . Aided by local French people , they would conduct ambushes against Ger- man forces for several days before retreating northwards towards Carentan .. Meanwhile , Major Johnson had resolved that even though they were miles from ...
... Graignes . He also gave details of those personnel believed to have been captured by the enemy . It would take some time for the horror of Graignes to become known . The town would be liber- ated on July 18 , and four days later an ...
... Graignes was dedicated as a memorial to the dead . The main walls of the church were reduced to their lower courses of stone to enable the visitor to imagine what the church was like when it held its last Sunday Mass in June 1944 . The ...
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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