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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... population were pleasant and mutually beneficial , and any indiscipline by SS troopers was firmly addressed . When two SS NCOs got drunk and rang the church bells in the town of Mirabeau , they were forced to apolo- gize to the local ...
... population throughout France . Most had escaped outright violence from the German military and Gestapo . However , low - level thiev- ery by German troops ready to take without compensation what they wanted in the form of eggs , milk ...
... population , which had been neither . The dead of Oradour - sur - Glane would not get justice . The dead of Graignes and a dozen other places in Normandy would not even get their day in court . In view of the outcomes of some of the ...
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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