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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... combat ; and lectures in a range of subjects , from map reading and first aid , to the dangers of gas and urban fighting , to sessions on unarmed combat and aircraft recognition . By March , training for the 507th was pro- ceeding ...
... Combat Team , which arrived on Monday , September 20. Their course lasted three weeks and concluded with a full assault landing against an " enemy " beach . The Regimental Combat Team of the 116th Infantry Regiment returned to the ...
... Combat History of the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division " Gotz von Berlichingen . " N.p .: Axis Europa Books , 1999 . Murch , D. , and M. Murch . The American Forces at Salcombe and Slapton during WWII . Plymouth : PDS Printers , 1984 ...
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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