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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... lines , leav- ing pockets of heavy resistance to follow - up units . Their primary goal was to dislo- cate the defenses and to force a general retreat . This they managed spectacularly , bringing the Allies to the brink of defeat before ...
... lines , the forces at Graignes could play a valuable role in harassing the enemy rear and in conducting ambushes . This was despite the suggestions of Captain Brummitt , who on June 6 came up with a plan for a night march across the ...
... lines , advising them that in a hundred yards they would be in American lines . The men in the barge wanted to do something to show their appreciation of Folliot's heroism . Collecting together all their invasion currency , they pressed ...
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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