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| | 1st Airborne Battle Group History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | The Mortar Battery, composed of 13 officers and 130 enlisted men, was organic to the Battle Group, and consisted of a battery headquarters, a battery detail, five forward observer sections, an ammunition section, two firing platoons, a fire direction center, and a liaison section. |
 | | The 1st Airborne Battle Group 506th Infantry was reorganized on 3 February 1964, forming the 1st Battalion (Airborne) and the 2nd Battalion (Airborne) 506th Infantry. |
 | | With the creation of these two Battalions, the fine and exemplary traditions of the 506th Parachute Infantry, gained in both peace and war, were to be carried forward by a new generation of Currahees, many who were not yet born when the 506th made their drop in Normandy and their stand at Bastogne. |
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