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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 ...
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
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]
During World War II, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion — nicknamed the Six Triple Eight — was the first and only unit of color in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) stationed in Europe.
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) 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (United States)
The 550th was originally formed as an air landing unit rather than a parachute or glider battalion. The battalion's mission was to land if required in Central, Latin, and South American countries as well as areas in the Caribbean, notably Martinique. The unit would be preceded by the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion.
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
551st Air Base Group (later 551st Combat Support Group): 18 August 1957 – 1 November 1969 [49] 551st Maintenance & Supply Group: 18 August 1957 – 8 November 1958 [49] E-3 Airborne Warning & Control Systems/Airborne Early Warning & Control Systems Group (later 551st Electronic Systems Group): 17 December 2004 – 30 June 2010 [56]