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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... town . All was going well until around 9pm when a fight broke out between two of the black engineers over some of ... town the military policemen were whites , and vice versa . The trouble got worse , and there were several stabbings ...
... town had been beaten back , and an army hospital established in the town treated the wounded who were brought into town . St. Mere Eglise was the base at which the 82nd Air- borne Division would defend to the last . Forces were on their ...
... town of Vierville sur Mer . Bronze Star , GO 47 , July 10 . S.Sgt . DARRELL R. SPICER , 20363121 ; repaired wire to rear echelon through the enemy lines . Bronze Star , GO 47 , July 10 . Sgt . MORTIMER H. CHRISTIAN , 20365469 ...
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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