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  2. 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion (United States) - Wikipedia

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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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    The 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion fought with a tenacity and fervor that was extraordinary. In what United States Army historian Charles MacDonald called "the greatest battle ever fought by the United States Army," the 551st demonstrated the very best of the Army tradition of performance of duty in spite of great sacrifice and against all ...

  4. List of known U.S. combat parachute jumps - Wikipedia

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    509th Parachute Infantry Battalion (PIB) Torch: 556 Algeria Tafaraoui airfield, La Senia 15 November 1942 509th PIB Torch 300–350 Algeria Youks les Bains 24 December 1942 509th PIB, Headquarters Company Two French paratroopers 32 Tunisia El Djem 9 July 1943 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), 3rd Battalion (jumped first).

  5. 82nd Airborne Division - Wikipedia

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    The 82nd Airborne suffered high casualties in the process. The attached 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion was all but destroyed during these attacks. Of the 826 men who went into the Ardennes, only 110 came out.

  6. Battle of the Bulge order of battle - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Category:Airborne units and formations of the United States ...

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    551st Parachute Infantry Battalion (United States) 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (United States) D. 82nd Airborne Division Artillery; 101st Airborne Division ...

  8. 550th Airborne Infantry Battalion (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The unit would be preceded by the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion. As the threats to the Caribbean and Latin American regions subsided in 1943, the 550th was redesignated the 550th Glider Infantry Battalion under the command of Lt. Colonel Edward Sachs and undertook glider training in Sicily. [2]

  9. Category : Battalions of the United States Army in World War II

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    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; 744th Tank Battalion; 745th Tank Battalion; 746th Tank Battalion (United States)