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The 502nd Infantry Regiment (502nd IR), previously titled the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (502nd PIR), is an infantry regiment of the United States Army.The regiment was established shortly after U.S. entry into World War II, and was assigned as a regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, "The Screaming Eagles", one of the most decorated formations of the U.S. Army.
The 101st departed for England in September 1943. The 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment boarded a troop ship bound for England, but had to switch to another ship in Newfoundland, and didn’t ...
A platoon within the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) (which had recently lost 10 soldiers killed in action, and was enduring leadership changes due to an ongoing investigation into the rape and killing of an Iraqi girl and the killing of her family by several other members of the unit ...
The 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment flew to An Khê and established a defensive perimeter around the base's airstrip on the 22nd. Over the next two days the rest of the brigade, including the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment and the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment and its heavy equipment arrived by sea at Qui Nhơn and moved ...
On 3 April a UH-1H medevac helicopter (serial number: 66-17043) from the 498th Medical Company, 55th Medical Group, 44th Medical Brigade was shot down while evacuating casualties. A small unit from the 502nd Infantry Regiment reached the crash site rescuing three survivors, while the dead crew chief's body was only located several weeks later ...
During the riots, the 258th Military Police Co. partnered with Marine forces to stop rioting Cuban immigrants who had broken out of the camps and were making their way to Panama City. The fighting during this engagement went back and forth, until 2nd Ranger Battalion, 1st Battalion 502nd Infantry Regiment, and 5th/87th Infantry retook the camps.
The 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, which was under the control of the 1st Cavalry Division, continued its base defense mission and patrols west of Quảng Trị. [2]: 55 This left only the 1st Battalion of the 12th US Cavalry Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the 5th Cavalry Regiment to support the ARVN units engaged with the PAVN/VC ...
At 11:30 on 30 May Company B, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, while on a reconnaissance in force, engaged an estimated enemy platoon which was shortly reinforced by a company size unit. Company B 2/502nd Infantry called for airstrikes and the action continued until 13:53 resulting in 2 US killed and 3 PAVN killed.