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Members of the 551st Parachute Infantry Regiment on patrol in the French Alps during World War II. As a non-divisional unit for the entire war, the Battalion was attached to the provisional 1st Airborne Task Force for the Allied invasion of southern France in August 1944.
The 101st Airborne Division's 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), which had originally been given the task of capturing Sainte-Mère-Église, was shifted to protect the Carentan flank, and the capture of Sainte-Mère-Église was assigned to the veteran 505th PIR of the 82nd Airborne Division.
327th Glider Infantry Regiment: Col. George S. Wear (relieved 9 June 44) Col. Joseph H. Harper. 1st Battalion: Lt Col. Hartford T. Salee (WIA 10 June 44) 2nd Battalion: Lt Col. Thomas J. Rouzie; 1st Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry Regiment: Lt Col. Ray C. Allen; 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment: Col. Howard R. Johnson
C-47 of the 303rd TCS/442nd TCG in invasion markings. The 442nd TCG carried the 1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment on D-Day. Statue of General James Gavin at the La Fiere Bridgehead. Boston was the second of two combat jumps, with "Mission Albany" preceding it by one hour to drop the 101st Airborne Division. Each mission consisted ...
C-47 of the 439th Troop Carrier Group, which carried the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment into Normandy. Group commander's aircraft, chalk #1 of serial 11, assigned to Drop Zone C. Thirty minutes before the main jumps, three teams of pathfinders jumped into each drop zones set up navigation aids, including Eureka radar transponder beacons and ...
Army veteran Chung Wong of Jupiter is among a group that will parachute onto Normandy, France, to mark the invasion that altered World War II. Remembering D-Day: Army vet to parachute into ...
The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, under the command of Colonel Edson Raff, was the lead assault formation for the 17th Airborne Division, and was consequently the first U.S. airborne unit to land as part of Operation Varsity.
He was in HQ Company, 1st Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. (The “Band of Brothers” TV series was based on a sister unit, E Company, 2nd Battalion of ...