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The 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion (551st PIB) was, for many years, a little-recognized airborne forces unit of the United States Army, raised during World War II, that fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Originally commissioned to take the French Caribbean island of Martinique, they were shipped instead to Western Europe. With an initial ...
The 3rd Infantry Division with the following-attached units: 254 Infantry Regiment, 99th Chemical Battalion, 168th Chemical Smoke Generator Company, 441st Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion (SP), 756th Tank Battalion, IPW Team 183, and the 2831st Engineer (C) Battalion fighting incessantly, from ...
551st Parachute Infantry Battalion ... MACV, desperate for additional manpower, wanted the division to deploy to Vietnam, and the Department of the Army, wishing to ...
504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), 3rd Battalion (jumped first). 505th Regimental Combat Team (RCT), including 505th PIR, 456th Parachute Field Artillery (PFA), 307th Engineering Battalion (Engr.), Company B. Husky I 3,406 Italy Gela, Sicily 10 July 1943 504th RCT, including 504th PIR, 1st & 2nd Btn.; 376th PFA, 307th Engr., Co. A Husky II
515th Parachute Infantry Regiment (United States) 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment; 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team; 541st Parachute Infantry Regiment (United States) 542nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (United States) 550th Airborne Infantry Battalion (United States) 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion (United States)
139 Vietnam. 140 Zambia. 141 Zimbabwe. ... 8171st Reconnasissance Battalion [327] 551st Parachute Brigade (Reserve) ... 495th Parachute Battalion "Captain Ștefan ...
Nordyke, Phil (2006), Four Stars of Valor: The Combat History of the 505th Parachute Infantry, St. Paul: MBI Publishing, ISBN 0-7603-2664-9; Orfalea, Gregory (1999), Messengers of the Lost Battalion: The Heroic 551st and the Turning of the Tide at the Battle of the Bulge, New York: Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0-684-87109-2
This notional formation was 'built up' around real units, the 517th Regimental Combat Team, 1st Battalion, 551st Parachute Infantry Regiment & the 550th Airborne Infantry Battalion which were depicted as operating under a single command when in fact they were operating separately. [2]