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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Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was la
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…Liverpool, England, and from there entrained on 16 October 1943 for Dorchester, to carry out seven months of grueling training in preparation for the Allied invasion of Europe. On 1 June 1944, the men of the 16th Infantry departed their D-Camps in southwestern England and embarked on amphibious assault ships at the port of…
LSTs with barrage balloons deployed, unloading supplies on Omaha Beach for the breakout from Normandy
D-day assault routes into Normandy
Air plan for the Allied landing in Normandy
Remains of the concrete Mulberry harbour B (Gold) at Arromanches-les-Bains in Normandy, as seen out at sea and on the beach in 1990