By G. H. Bennett
Bennett collects oral histories from males of 3 usa regiments that participated within the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment was once the main generally scattered of the yankee parachute infantry regiments to be dropped on D-Day. even though, the efforts of a hundred and eighty males to forestall the improvement of an SS Panzer Grenadier department principally were overlooked open air of France. The 116th Infantry Regiment got the top variety of casualties on Omaha seashore of any Allied unit on D-Day. Stationed in England via many of the battle, it have been the butt of jokes whereas different regiments did the scuffling with and demise in North Africa and the Mediterranean; that modified on June 6, 1944. And the twenty second Infantry Regiment, a unit that had fought in virtually each crusade waged by way of the U.S. military when you consider that 1812, got here ashore on Utah seashore really simply earlier than getting embroiled in a chain of savage fights to move the marshland at the back of the seashore and to trap the German heavy batteries to the north.Each participant's tale is woven into the bigger photograph of the attack, permitting Bennett to head past the mostly own viewpoints yielded by means of conventional oral background yet keeping off the impersonal nature of reviews of grand process. as well as the interviews and memoirs Bennett gathered, he additionally stumbled on clean documentary facts from American, British, and French information that play a big half in facilitating this new procedure, in addition to data in Britain and France. the writer reveals new tales and questions from D-Day, resembling the bloodbath of squaddies from the 507th at Graignes, Hemevez, and somewhere else. This new fabric features a specialize in the regimental point, that is all yet missed via historians, whereas nonetheless masking strategic, tactical, and human concerns. His conclusions spotlight universal misperceptions concerning the Normandy landings. Questions have already been raised in regards to the knowledge of the Anglo-American amphibious doctrine hired on D-Day. during this examine, Bennett maintains to problem the idea that the operation was once an exemplary demonstration of strategic making plans.
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Exercise Eagle on the night of May 12–13 was rescheduled as a major practice for the airborne drop on D-Day. Some 800 C-47 troop carrying aircraft from the South 52nd and 53rd Troop Carrier Wings would be involved in the drops. Since the 82nd Airborne Division sustained so many men who had already made combat jumps over Sicily, its drop would be only a token effort. However, the jump by the 101st Airborne Division would be in full. Taking off around 11:00 PM on the night of May 12, the transport aircraft, EARLY TRAINING AND THE BUILDUP TO JUNE 6, 1944 27 flying in formation, navigated their way between a series of way points stretching from Wales to the south of England.
To a certain extent they were shared by the dogfaces of the 4th and 29th divisions, but by 1944 the 1st Infantry Division had seen so much action that within its ranks perceptions and prejudices were especially marked. To the men of the Big Red One, all other units were inferior, and soldiers in noncombat units barely deserved the name. Faded fatigues and worn equipment were a badge of honor, and efficiency in drill was a sure sign of absence from the battlefront. All officers serving behind the front were especially detested.
The men were then loaded onto trains that would take them to their destination in England. Only a handful of men in the regiment knew where this was to be. The need for secrecy had been strictly observed. An advance detail under Major Earl Edwards had set up a series of camps to house the regiment. All elements of the regiment would locate to towns near the South Devon coast in preparation for the Allied landings on the coast of France. The Third Battalion, as well as the Cannon and Anti-Tank companies, would go to the small town of South Brent, not far from Ivybridge and the base of the First Battalion of the 116th Infantry.