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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
Frank van Lunteren, Birth of a Regiment: The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Sicily and Salerno., Permuted Press, LLC, 2022. Frank van Lunteren, The Battle of the Bridges: The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Operation Market Garden, Casemate Publishing, 2014.
Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands ... 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment ...
Cook made combat jumps into Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio before taking command of the 3rd Battalion of the 504th PIR in the spring of 1944, just months before Operation Market Garden. The regiment, due to heavy losses in Italy and a lack of airborne replacements, did not participate in the Allied invasion of Normandy. [1]
The Battle of Nijmegen, also known as the Liberation of Nijmegen, occurred from 17 to 20 September 1944, as part of Operation Market Garden during World War II.. The Allies' primary goal was to capture the two bridges over the Waal River at Nijmegen – the road route over the Waalbrug (Waal Bridge) and Nijmegen railway bridge – and relieve the British 1st Airborne Division and Polish 1st ...
On Sept. 17, 1944, Operation Market Garden began, a military undertaking that consisted of two main parts. The first was dropping three airborne divisions to seize control of roads between the ...
To commemorate the 1944 Waal assault river crossing made by the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment and the 307th Engineer Battalion (Airborne) during Operation Market Garden, an annual Crossing of the Waal competition is staged on the anniversary of the operation at McKellar's Lake near Fort Liberty.
Operation Market Garden – Cheneux, Belgium HEADQUARTERS 82D AIRBORNE DIVISION Office of the Division Commander A.P.O. 469, U.S. Army, 23 March 1945 GENERAL ORDERS UNIT CITATION NUMBER 43 The First Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry (less Company "A") has been cited by the Commanding General, First United States Army, for outstanding ...