The 16th Infantry Regiment is a regiment in the United States Army and has traditionally been a part of the 1st Infantry Division.
Officers of the 16th Infantry with French interpreters and instructor, Summer 1917.
At Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 1944 According to the French historian, Georges Bernage, Omaha Beach 6 June 1944, this photo was from war correspondent Richard Taylor, and taken at about 0720. They GIs are awaiting evacuation under the cliffs at Fox Red Beach on the far left flank. They are members of the 3rd Battalion 16th RCT, 1st Infantry Division [likely GIs of Company L].
A 1st Infantry Division half-track plows its way through a muddy road in the Hürtgen Forest. 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. 15 Feb 1945.
Men of Company "C", 16th Infantry draw sniper fire while on a search and destroy mission, 4 October 1965
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Oper
16th Infantry Regiment (United States)
…16th Infantry had broken through the beach defenses and established a foothold that allowed follow-on units to land and move through. At Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 1944 According to the French historian, Georges Bernage, Omaha Beach 6 June 1944, this photo was from war correspondent Richard Taylor, and taken…
Into the Jaws of Death: men of the 16th Infantry Regiment wade ashore on Omaha Beach
Meeting of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), 1 February 1944. Front row: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder; General Dwight D. Eisenhower; General Sir Bernard Montgomery. Back row: Lieutenant General Omar Bradley; Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay; Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory; Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith.
Shoulder patches were designed for units of the fictitious First United States Army Group under George Patton.
Czech hedgehogs deployed on the Atlantic Wall near Calais