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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 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion fought with a tenacity and fervor that was extraordinary. ... Marks the only time in U.S. military aviation history that a unit ...
517th Parachute Infantry Regiment [13] 1st Battalion 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
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
2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment; 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion (United States) 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (United States) 602nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion; 717th Tank Battalion; 735th Tank Battalion (United States) 741st Tank Battalion (United States) 743rd Tank Battalion; 745th Tank Battalion; 746th Tank ...
The 4th Parachute Battalion had around forty per cent of its manpower and the 6th (Royal Welch) Parachute Battalion sixty per cent. [28] By 06:30 Brigade Headquarters was established at Le Mitan and radio contact made with the American 36th Infantry Division , which at the time was still on their transports out at sea.