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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 ...
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]
2nd Battalion 3rd Battalion 460th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion [e] 596th Airborne Engineer Company 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion 550th Airborne Infantry Battalion (Glider) 1st Battalion, 551st Parachute Infantry Regiment (Reinforced) 463rd Airborne Field Artillery Battalion 602d Glider Field Artillery Battalion (75mm Pack)
495th Parachute Battalion "Captain Ștefan Sovereth" (Batalionul 495 Parașutiști "Căpitan Ștefan Soverth") [532] Training Center for ISR, Paratroopers, Special operations and JTAC "Major General Grigore Baştan [ ro ] " ( Centrul de Instruire pentru ISR, Parașutiști, Operații Speciale și JTAC "General-maior Grigore Baștan" ) [ 533 ]
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
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)
One of the constituent units, the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion, dropped on Draguignan, 42 kilometres (26 mi) from the coast. Some gliders were wrecked by Rommelspargel but more were destroyed by other obstacles such as trees, and by gliders landing atop one another. An officer in the 551st, Major "Pappy" Herrmann, saw the damage inflicted ...