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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... Battle for France , the Battle of Britain , and the ongoing Battle of the Atlantic . The American boys trusted their government , and if President Roosevelt said that they had to fight overseas for American values , then resignedly they ...
... battle , one trooper continued to hide in the church belfry until given temporary shelter by Madame Meunier , the schoolteacher . She led him to the Port de Planques and pointed him in the direction of Allied lines . Another hid in a ...
... Battle of the Astor , Nancy , 29 Atlantic , 2 , 22 Atlantic , Battle of , 14 Atlantic Wall , xviii , 50 , 61–65 Azeville , See Normandy Band of Brothers , 138 Barber , General Henry A. , 111 , 113 Barton , Major General Raymond O. , 23 ...
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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