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Originally Posted by Stealhead
The only Ranger involvement during D-Day was at Point du Hoc the 2nd Ranger Battalion they as a unit had never seen action before.The most sizable formation of Rangers you will ever see is a regiment.It is very likely that some members of the 2nd Rangers where transferred from the 1st Ranger Battalion they had seen action in North Africa.
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5th Rangers were there as well, they landed at Omaha beach Dog Green sector instead of at Pointe Du Hoc as reinforcements for the 2nd as was planned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_Assault_Group
(I called the Ranger units
Divisions by mistake, My bad.)