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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Three American Regiments on D-Day G. H. Bennett. PFC Charles G. Beckwith , 32837592 PFC Frederick L. Bennett , 31013927 PFC Edward B. Berghoff , 33043413 Sgt . John T. Blacknall , 33042558 PFC Albert A. Boucher 31067618 PFC William T ...
... PFC John W. Kruper , 33152450 Cpl . Thomas J. Joyner , 33043067 Pvt . Donald R. Huckstedt , 36674168 Pvt . John D ... Charles T. Fletcher , 34736942 Pvt . Barney C. Everett , 35326949 PFC John D. Dorzi , 31067686 PFC Samuel A. DeMaria ...
... PFC ALVIN J. BURKHOLDER , 33153091 ; provided covering fire so that enemy barbed wire could be cut . Bronze Star , GO 54 , July 17 . PFC CHARLES ... PFC LESTER RICHARDSON , 33046936 ; aided advance by spotting emplace- ment and snipers ...
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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