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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 ...
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551st Military Police Company; 561st Military Police Company; 163rd Military Police Detachment; XVIII Airborne Corps / Fort Liberty: Active Duty 18th Military Police Brigade - Grafenwoehr. 709th Military Police Battalion – Grafenwoehr. 92nd Military Police Company – Baumholder; 527th Military Police Company – Hohenfels; 529th Military ...
The 550th Airborne Infantry Battalion was an independent airborne forces formation of battalion-size of the United States Army formed during World War II on 1 July 1941 at Fort Kobbe Panama Canal Zone. [1] The 550th was originally formed as an air landing unit rather than a parachute or glider battalion.
551st Parachute Infantry Battalion 740th Tank Battalion (attached 30 December – 11 January) 628th Tank Destroyer Battalion (attached 2–11 January) 643rd Tank Destroyer Battalion (attached 4–5 January) 106th Infantry ("Golden Lions") Division Major General Alan W. Jones 422nd♦, 423rd♦, [j] and 424th♦ Infantry Regiments
The 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team (517th PRCT) was an airborne, specifically a parachute infantry, regiment of the United States Army that was formed in March 1943 during World War II, training at Camp Toccoa in the mountains of Northeast Georgia.
The 508th Infantry Regiment (508th PIR, 508th AIR, or 508th IR) ("Red Devils" or "Fury from the Sky") is an airborne infantry regiment of the United States Army, first formed in October 1942 during World War II.
One version of the patch worn on the uniforms of American pathfinders who served during World War II. In military organizations, a pathfinder is a specialized soldier inserted or dropped into place in order to set up and operate drop zones, pickup zones, and helicopter landing sites for airborne operations, air resupply operations, or other air operations in support of the ground unit commander.