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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... face of the assault regiments on D - Day would be predominantly white , that of the quartermaster service was much more representative of the racial diversity of the United States . By the end of October 1942 there were 12,000 African ...
... face the Allied invasion in 1944 . In practice , however , the veterans of the campaigns in France and Russia knew a great deal about fighting , as well as how to motivate the non - Germans pressed into service in the German army ...
... face in crossing the causeway . Many felt that Gavin had entrusted them with what amounted to a suicide mission . However , Rae's men were motivated by a higher force than simply obeying orders . Timmes and their fellow troopers from ...
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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