Destination Normandy: Three American Regiments on D-Day
Each participant's story is woven into the larger picture of the assault, allowing Bennett to go beyond the largely personal viewpoints yielded by traditional oral history but avoiding the impersonal nature of studies of grand strategy. In addition to the interviews and memoirs Bennett collected, he also discovered fresh documentary evidence from American, British, and French archives that play an important part in facilitating this new approach, as well as archives in Britain and France. The author unearths new stories and questions from D-Day, such as the massacre of soldiers from the 507th at Graignes, Hemevez, and elsewhere. This new material includes a focus on the regimental level, which is all but ignored by historians, while still covering strategic, tactical, and human issues. His conclusions highlight common misperceptions about the Normandy landings. Questions have already been raised about the wisdom of the Anglo-American amphibious doctrine employed on D-Day. In this study, Bennett continues to challenge the assumption that the operation was an exemplary demonstration of strategic planning. |
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As usual on the transatlantic troopships , officers enjoyed a tolerable crossing while the enlisted men had to make ... Colonel Millet , the commanding officer of the regiment , had considerable differences with the colonel in charge of ...
Gavin favored the removal of Colonel Millet , the regiment's commanding officer , and at least one of the battalion ... What was perhaps worse , for these alleged flaws were shared by many other officers in the parachute infantry ...
Last night the 505th had its officer patrols armed . The negroes resented this alleging that the white officers intended to get them . A group of negroes broke into an arms storeroom secured arms stole a truck and headed for town .
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Contents
Operation Bolero and the Clash of Cultures | 1 |
Three Regiments and the Mind of the GI | 7 |
Early Training and the Buildup to June 6 1944 | 17 |
Copyright | |
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