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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... formed the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment . Other regiments formed in the wake of the 501st . The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment was activated at Fort Benning on July 20 , 1942 , Colonel George Millet Jr. commanding . The process ...
... formed by Utah Beach ; and the British 6th Airborne Division would cover Sword Beach , which formed the eastern flank of the landings . Regiments like the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment would play a pivotal role in preventing or ...
... formed another rally point , as did the parish church at Graignes to the southeast of the town of Carentan ... formation but as a series of groups pursuing different objec- tives . Some groups would find themselves pursing the objectives ...
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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