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Graignes Errors
Errors by Rabe
(The errors are
highlighted in bold from his book)
Rabe, Stephen
G.. The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy (p.
14). Cambridge University Press. Kindle
Edition.
Headquarters
Company, 3rd Battalion, 507th Regiment
Rabe shows his
lack of military terminology as the correct
listing would be Headquarters Company 3rd Battalion
507th Parachute Infantry not 507th Regiment.
Hard to believe a Historian would leave out
both Parachute and Infantry. Regiment
is only be listed when said unit is not part of
a Division.
Rabe, Stephen
G.. The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy (p.
101-102). Cambridge University Press. Kindle
Edition
By the dawn
of 13 June 1944, the 37th Regiment was
finally in position to attack Carentan… Two
battalions of the 38th Regiment were
positioned further westward near
Montmartin-en-Graignes.
The first
sentence I read in his book was wrong. Rabe
makes the most basic mistakes, things like
saying Montmartin-en-Graignes is west of
Carentan when in fact it was east of
Carentan. Little
things like this say a lot.
Rabe, Stephen
G.. The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy (p.
184). Cambridge University Press. Kindle
Edition.
Some troopers
in Headquarters Company may have had the
misfortune to land in a drainage ditch and
become entangled in their parachute gear.
Five men –
Pvt. Allison T. Bliss, Private Robert W.
Britton, Pvt. Harold J. Premo, Pfc. Stanley
Pytel, and Pfc. George E. Tillett – from the
company are listed as having been killed in
action on 6 June 1944.
None of those
men were killed 6 June 1944. There is
detailed information on my site showing what
happened to those men. To think that a
family member might read this at some point in
the future is sad. It’s
frustrating when yet another book/article
comes out about Graignes that is riddled
with errors.
Brian N. Siddall
July 18, 2023 |
