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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... marsh , though what false trick of photography was responsible for that mischance must go unknown . All that is certain is that the men felt sure the marsh was not there.3 The inundation was not necessarily that deep - less than five ...
... marsh . But Germans and their weapons were thick on the western bank and were flailing the marsh with fire before the Americans had time to vanish into the rushes and reeds . Many of the fugitives were shot dead while wading in the muck ...
... marsh towards the invasion beaches . The 507th was fighting along both sides of the great marsh , and the actions of apparently disparate groups had con- spired to deny vital territory to the enemy . Along the fringes of the marsh it ...
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 |
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