 On 4 June 1944, the regiment boarded the LSTs which would carry them to the beaches of Normandy.Following a 24-hour delay, the 115th and 116th Infantry assaulted the beaches on 6 June.The 175th, the 29th Division's reserve, landed on the still unsecured Omaha Beach on the morning of 7 June, and proceeded to its objective to seize the village of Isigny.