Video of Operation Hackensack in Normandy on 7 June 1944
D-Day and Battle of Normandy videos
This section contains archive videos illustrating military operations in the Utah Beach sector during the Battle of Normandy.
Video date: 7 June 1944
Subject: video of Operation Hackensack (air transport carried out by the 439th Troop Carrier Group and the 441st Troop Carrier Group of reinforcements belonging to the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment and the 401st Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division). The Waco gliders towed by Douglas C-47s reached the Cotentin Peninsula and the landing zone codenamed ‘W’ near Sainte-Mère-Eglise at 9 a.m. Of the thousand men involved in Operation Hackensack, 15 American soldiers were killed during the landing and around 60 others were wounded.
Location: Cotentin, Manche, Normandy
Units:
– 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd (US) Airborne Division
– 401st Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd (US) Airborne Division
– 439th Troop Carrier Group, 50th Troop Carrier Wing, 9th Troop Carrier Command
– 441st Troop Carrier Group, 50th Troop Carrier Wing, 9th Troop Carrier Command
Source: US National Archives