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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... ships like her were so busy carrying men back and forth across the Atlantic that there was little time shoreside to ... ship . At the same time portholes were blacked out and closed . Life was pretty miserable and always tinged with the ...
... ship , and that's what I did . Until the fire got so hot we were forced to leave the ship at 0230 , we watched the most spectacular fireworks ever . Gas cans and ammunition exploding and the enormous fire blazing only a few yards away ...
... ships , roaring down the river and out to sea . They never ceased all the afternoon and evening and on into the night . It is incredible that one river could ever hold so many ships . " 9 10 Force U , destined for Utah Beach , would ...
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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