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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... reached shore at 0830 , picking up weapons from the dead to join in the assault against Les Moulins . Mullins would ... reaching it the tank came down the beach towards the Vierville draw . The tank pro- ceeded to put several rounds into ...
... reached La Fiere after Levy's forces had occupied Cauquigny . Reporting to General Gavin at La Fiere , Ostberg and his force were ordered to seize the crossing of the Merderet , to the south of La Fiere , at Chef - du - Pont ...
... reached Allied lines on their own or in small groups . In addition to two main groups , one of which Sergeant Costa was a part , some survivors stayed on their own or in pairs . Frank Juliano of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment ...
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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