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Destination Normandy : three American regiments on D-Day

Presents a collection of oral histories from men of three United States regiments that participated in the invasion of Normandy. Weaving each participant's story into the larger picture of the assault, this book challenges the orthodoxy established in the post-war period that the operation was a remarkable success from a planning perspective.
eBook, English, 2007
Praeger Security International, Westport, Conn., 2007
1 online resource (xx, 222 pages) : illustrations
9780313081736, 0313081735
230709892
Operation Bolero and the clash of cultures
Three regiments and the mind of the GI
Early training and the build-up to June 6 1944
Freetime, crime and the GI
Segregation and race
Amphibious training
The waiting enemy
Pre-invasion movements
Launching the invasion
The battle for the marshes
The drive inland and the crossing of the Merderet
Cut off elements of the 507th
Aftermath and conclusions
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010