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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... Walter D. Sink , 20364257 Pvt . George ( NMI ) Pisar , 32776793 Pvt . Bernard G. Brush , 36853089 PFC Forest L. Rosamond , 34613295 PFC Willis W. Thaxton , 20364699 PFC Donald J. Szymczak , 36578100 Pvt . James E. Payette , 36675742 Pvt ...
... Walter G. June 6 , 1944 Sansky , Joseph J. June 15 , 1944 Schulken , Arthur Scott , John E. June 24 , 1944 June 9 ... Walter T. June 23 , 1944 Stachowiak , Joseph A. July 24 , 1944 Stetz , Stanley F. July 7 , 1944 Stevens , Glenn A. June ...
... Walter B. June 18 , 1944 Thomas , Clarence June 16 , 1944 Thomas , Raymond W. June 23 , 1944 Thore , Paul B. July 7 , 1944 Tillett , George E. Tillman , Daniel B. September 8 , 1944 June 24 , 1944 Todd , William A. Toye , Lewis S. June ...
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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