3 accounts found for “Normandy”
Grenadier Heinrich Severloh, 1st Company, 726th Infantry Regiment
Stationed at strongpoint WN62 on the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach, nineteen-year-old German Grenadier Heinrich Severloh fired an estimated 12,000 rifle rounds...
Captain Taylor Fellers & Company A, 116th Infantry
On the morning of June 6, 1944, a small Virginia town of 3,200 people sent its sons to Omaha Beach. Nineteen of them died in the first fifteen minutes of the as...
Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
At 56 years old, arthritic, and walking with a wooden cane, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. — son of the 26th President — was the only general officer ...