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The 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment was scheduled to make a combat parachute jump, in order to help oust the military-led dictatorship and restore the democratically elected president, although Haiti had never had democracy in any form. The Division's first wave was in the air, with the 505th PIR loaded on aircraft awaiting takeoff, when the ...
5th Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment; 3rd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment (DRF 1) 6th Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment; A Battery, 2-62d ADA; B Company, 27th Engineer Battalion; B Company, 7th Medical Battalion; B Company, 707th Maintenance Battalion; B Company, 7th Supply and Transportation Battalion; 3rd Brigade. 4th Battalion, 17th ...
2nd Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry Regiment: Lt Col. Charles A. Carrell (Relieved 9 June 44), Maj. Arthur W. Gardner (KIA 14 June 44); Maj. Osmund Leahy; 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment: Col. William E. Ekman 1st Battalion: Maj. Frederick C. A. Kellam (KIA 6 June 44), Lt Col. Mark J. Alexander
504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Colonel Reuben H. Tucker. 1st Battalion, 504th PIR, Lieutenant Colonel John T. Berry; 2nd Battalion, 504th PIR, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Willems; 3rd Battalion, 504th PIR, Lieutenant Colonel Julian Cook; 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Colonel William E. Ekman 1st Battalion, 505th PIR, Major Talton Long
Crest of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. In the summer of 1942 the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment was activated in the tarpaper shack Frying Pan area of Fort Benning, overlooking Lawson Army Airfield. Gorham, then a major, was assigned as commander of the 1st Battalion. [22] There was no time lost in getting a hard training schedule ...
The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment and Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment 82nd Airborne Division, were joined by soldiers from the 2nd Battalion 9th Infantry Regiment, 2d and 3d Battalions of the 27th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (Light) QRF from Fort Ord, California.
These Combat Engineers were part of Task Force Panther, centered around the 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment from Fort Bragg, North Carolina. It was named for the beachhead in Salerno, Italy that the 505th PIR parachuted onto on 14 September 1943 (Operation Avalanche).
In 1986, the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment created the "Gavin Squad Competition". This competition was designed to identify the most proficient rifle squad in the regiment. The original competition was won by a squad from 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 3/505th PIR. Gavin was on hand to award the nine man squad their trophy.