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	101st Airborne WWII Division Chronicle
		Preceding the exercise, on 10 June 1943, the 506th Parachute Infantry was attached to the division.
		On 8 June elements of the 501st and 506th Parachute Infantry, along with the 1st Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry, engaged a German force in the town of St. Côme-du-Mont. The 3d Battalion, 501st PIR, took positions south of the town, along the highway to Carentan where it encountered the enemy.
		Elements of the 506th managed to cross the river, neutralizing the enemy force that had destroyed the bridge, and a footbridge was improvised to allow the remainder of the 506th to cross.
	www.501stpir.com /101st_airborne_history/101stabn_history.html (4945 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Richard Winters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		During World War II, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (506th PIR) was a regiment of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army.
		He was initially the commanding officer of Company E in the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, the unit that is the subject of...
		Infantry of the Royal Irish Rifles during the Battle of the Somme in World War I. Infantry are soldiers who fight primarily on foot with small arms in organized military units, though they may be transported to the battlefield by horses, ships, automobiles, skis, bicycles, or other means.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Richard-Winters (4231 words)

	The 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment(PIR)during World War II
		The 506th PIR was attached to the 101st Airborne Division on 1 June 1943.
		After participating in the maneuvers, the 506th moved to Fort Bragg, NC until the end of August 1943 when the unit reported to Camp Shanks, NY to prepare to be transported overseas.
		On 29 June the 101st was relieved from the VIII Corps and sent to Cherbourg to relieve the 4th Infantry Division.
	www.ww2-airborne.us /units/506/506.html (2277 words)

	506th Parachute Infantry Regiment at AllExperts
		The 506th was de-activated in 1945, then re-activated as the 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment in 1948-1949, again in 1950-1953 and finally, in 1954 to train recruits.
		As part of the 101st Airborne, the 506th was deployed to Vietnam, participating in the conflict from 1964 to 1971.
		The 506th was recognized for its role at the Battle of Hamburger Hill and during the Tet Offensive.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/506th_Parachute_Infantry_Regiment.htm (702 words)

	501st PIR - Item Company 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment
		CAMP TOCCOA, GA Item Co was formed along with the rest of the 501st PIR in November 1942 at Camp Camp Toccoa, GA. The 501st PIR was moving into Taccoa as the 506th PIR was moving out to Ft. Benning to attend jump school.
		The Tennessee Maneuvers not only served as a showcase for Item and all the 501st PIR it enabled the men and officers to come together as Battalions and as a Regiment in preparation for the movement overseas.
		In January 1944 the 501st moved as a regiment to Camp Miles Standish in preparation to move overseas.
	www.501stpir.com /item_501st_parachute_infantry/Item_company_history.html (573 words)

	1-506 History
		The 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment was activated on 20 July 1942 at Mount Currahee, Camp Toccoa, Georgia, as part of the newly formed 101st Airborne Division.
		The Regiment went on to liberate the town of Eindhoven on 18 September, and aided in the withdrawal of the beleaguered British 1st Airborne from Arnhem on 7 October.
		The Regiment participated in numerous actions during the period of Vietnamization; and in December 1971, the 506th redeployed to Fort Campbell and was deactivated in May 1984.
	www.campbell.army.mil /1-506/history.htm (1143 words)

	cgsbooks_page
		Parachute Infantry Regiment was constituted as an airborne regiment on July l, 1942 and was activated shortly thereafter at Camp Toccoa, Georgia on July 20, 1942.
		Infantry (Currahees) was activated in April of 1967, with Lieutenant Colonel John P. Geraci as the battalion commander.
		This book chronicles the saga of the Screaming Eagles of the Currahee Battalion, 3-506, during their tour of duty in the Republic of South Vietnam from October of 1967 until May of 1971, when the battalion stood down and the battalion colors were encased and returned to the United States.
	www.currahee.org /legacy506.html (1549 words)

	Aldbourne Community Website - UNITED STATES ARMY 506th PARACHUTE INFANTRY REGIMENT
		Company 'B' of the 1st Battalion and the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division were stationed in Aldbourne during 1943 and 1944.
		They occupied a hutted camp on the playing field; the officers were billeted in the 'Old Manor' (a misnomer) and the officer's mess was at 'Hightown', the house to the racing stables in the centre of the Village.
		The 101st Airborne Division, commander Major General M D Taylor comprised the 501st, 502nd and 506th Parachute Infantry Regiments together with the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment and various artillery and support units.
	www.aldbourne.org.uk /oldsoldiers (857 words)

	THE 501st PARACHUTE INFANTRY REGIMENT
		The 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment was in contact with the German forces along the Neder Rijn front in the Netherlands.
		The 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment was attached to the 101st Airborne Division, and under General McAuliffe's march orders they lead the column into Bastogne.
		The effectiveness of using parachute regiments in the role of advancing infantry in the East Bastogne Operations was clearly demonstrated.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/documents/wwii/501pirbulge.htm (3046 words)

	WWII Patches, Insignia, and Decorations
		Six parachutes represent the fact that the 506th was the sixth parachute regiment constituted in the U.S. Army.
		(Joe was later transferred to a special Army artist unit.) The design consists of a diving eagle in front of a parachute canopy and a pair of dice, showing a "5" and a "6" and connected with a large fl "0", signifying the 506 attacking from the sky.
		However, since this was a regimental insignia, it was not an authorized patch once the 506th PIR was attached to the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, NC, on June 1, 1943.
	www.506infantry.org /hiswwiiarticle02.html (1236 words)

	David Kenyon Webster, author of "Parachute Infantry - An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of ...
		Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich is available from:
		Webster's contempt for the military life, and of the clichés of honor and patriotism the leaders employed to incite the troops to battle…was as great as his respect for this buddies and their bravery in battle.
		A 21-year-old English literature major at Harvard University who aspired to be a writer when he enlisted in the parachute infantry in 1943, Webster jumped into Normandy and Holland with the 101st.
	www.davidkenyonwebster.com /bookreviews.html (1249 words)

	Welcome to the Legendary 506th PIR
		Known by all true realism units as the biggest threat to the krauts, by size and skill, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment is an extremely prestigious and well crafted unit.
		Hunnicutt and Maj. Turner the 506th is a veteran realism unit tainted with pride and honor bestowed by an outstanding record of battles passed.
		Hunnicutt, the 506th today, with feverous skill and an “always forward” offensive, suffers only one loss, ever, and has always strived to remain a stone-cold-killer in the ranks of realism in Day of Defeat: Source, and always looking to conquer yet another game.
	www.506th-pir.org /unithistory.htm (466 words)

	Special Forces Search Engine : Airborne - Powered By The FOGs at The Swamp Team House
		Rate It 1st Battalion, 507th Infantry Regiment, Army Airborne School with instructors from the USMC and USAF to train static line deployed parachute.
		Although the main focus is the British Parachute Regiment, paratroopers everywhere are welcome to join the club.
		Rate It This is the odyssey of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II.
	www.sfahq.com /Airborne (779 words)

	Bulletin Board for 506th PARACHUTE INFANTRY REGIMENT, 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION
		The 4th Brigade Combat Team and the 506th Council at Fort Campbell, KY are looking for 506th historical artifacts that they can display in the 506th regimental areas at Fort Campbell.
		To: Currahee Veterans -- The Department of Army has designated the infantry battalions of the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division as the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 506th Infantry (Air Assault).
		An Activation Ceremony for the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 506th Infantry...
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageBulletinBoard/1,13492,714205,00.html (487 words)

	Ramadi Convoy Exercise
		The 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment was activated in 1942 at Mount Currahee, Camp Toccoa, Georgia as part of the newly created 101st Airborne Division.
		For seventeen years, the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry was stationed two miles from the perilous DMZ in South Korea until it was called to duty in Iraq in late August 2004.
		The 1st Battalion of the 503rd Infantry Regiment is one of two Air Assault Infantry Battalions forwardly deployed on the Korean Peninsula.
	www.kumawar.com /RamadiVariations/forces.php (1390 words)

	Gabor: Normandy, Holland, Bastogne, Ardennes
		When the Army re-designated the 82nd Infantry Division as America’s first airborne division – using paratroopers jumping out of airplanes to fight in land combat – a new form of American warfare, untried and untested in battle by the United States, was born.
		The 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, or PIR, was the first of the new airborne units whose soldiers took their basic training and jump training at the same time – earning their paratrooper wings.
		As dawn was breaking, more than 23,000 infantry paratroopers from the U.S. Army’s two airborne divisions were deployed in this history-making military operation that would test their rigorous physical and mental training – and, more importantly, the combat effectiveness of airborne operations.
	www.ausa.org /dday/gabor.htm (666 words)

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		Not one of 506th Regiment's battalions had a drop pattern which was as good as the lowest mark which it had established during any training operation.
		Later an infantry lieutenant was using it along the banks of that river to reply to a German battery which had been harassing 506th.
		The 401st Glider Infantry Battalion, which had come off the Beach that afternoon, was to be the leading element in the advance through VIERVILLE to ST COME DU MONT. The Battalion was attached to 506th Regiment for the operation.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/documents/WWII/506-Nor/506-nor.htm (15840 words)

	101st AB PIR 506 - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		E Company 506th was constituted July 1, 1942 at Camp Toccoa, GA. At the time it was the first Parachute Infantry Regiment that would complete basic training and parachute training as a unit.
		The regiment filled a gap in the British lines which was once held by a division.
		On 25 February 1945 the 506th PIR were pulled off the line and shipped by rail to Mourmelon, France.
	www.jungbauer-imedia.nl /history.htm (1347 words)

	Gourmet Food Shop >> Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's ...
		Gourmet Food Shop >> Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
		Comment: I don't know which I liked better.
		I'm not terribly interested in WWII, but this book gets me really stoked to read more.
	www.advancingwomen.com /gourmetfoodshop/?Operation=CustomerReviews&ItemId=074322454X&ReviewPage=2 (316 words)

	Medal of Honor Nominees on Film: Richard D. Winters
		The mission of the two airborne divisions was to block German reenforcements from reaching the beachheads, and to secure the causeways that crossed the flood plains immediately inland from the amphibious landing zone of the 4th Infantry Division (which was under the field command of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.), codenamed Utah Beach.
		Winters was nominated for the Medal of Honor for this action by the commander of the 506th Regiment, Colonel Robert F. Sink.
		The authors also could not help noticing a number of parallels between Winters and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, and between their respective units, Easy Company 506th Parachute Infantry of World War II and the 20th Maine Infantry of the Civil War.
	www.users.voicenet.com /~lpadilla/winters.html (1055 words)

	Bulletin Board for 506th PARACHUTE INFANTRY REGIMENT, 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION
		The active-duty soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry, 2nd Division have been re-deployed from the South Korean DMZ area to IRAQ for a one-year mission at Camp Habbaniyah, near Ar Ramadi in the Sunni Triangle.
		The 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment Association (Airmobile - Air Assault) will be holding its 2004 Currahee Reunion in Des Moines, IA, July 20-25.
		All 506th Currahee veterans and their friends and families are invited to attend.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageBulletinBoard/1,13492,714205,00.html?Page=2 (332 words)

	Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
		Responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden, these men fought, went hungry, froze, and died, taking 150 percent casualties and considering the Purple Heart a badge of office.
		They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy.
	www.campusi.com /isbn_0743216385.htm (1120 words)

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		UTAH BEACH, NORMANDY, France -- Forty-seven veterans of E “Easy” Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, were honored at D-Day ceremonies on Utah Beach, and viewed portions of a dramatization of their own experiences in WW II.
		Behind Hanks are the veterans of E "Easy" Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, who landed behind German lines to disrupt the defense of the beaches like Utah.
		UTAH BEACH -- A veteran of E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, faces a horde of cameras and microphones from all over Europe.
	www.hqusareur.army.mil /htmlinks/Press_Releases/2001/June/20010611-3.htm (393 words)

	Association of the United States Army: Captains Courageous
		When the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment was formed in August, Winters became one of the original members of Easy Company.
		Three months later, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) deployed to England to prepare for the ensuing invasion of the European continent.
		For Winters' heroic leadership under fire during the attack at Brécourt Manor, Col. Robert Sink, the 506th PIR commander, recommended Winters receive the Medal of Honor, but only one man in the 101st Airborne Division was to be given that medal.
	www.ausa.org /webpub/DeptArmyMagazine.nsf/byid/CCRN-6CCRZX (4403 words)

	Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours - Band of Brothers Itinerary
		A brief overview of the legacy of Easy Company and their contribution to the war Europe will be presented.
		Ask any of the original members of Easy Company what made the unit so special and they will answer: "Toccoa." Following breakfast, we’ll travel to the tiny Georgia town that was the birthplace of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
		After finishing our tour of Aldbourne we head to Littlecote House, the historic English manor house that was the headquarters for the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment for the six months prior to the invasion.
	www.stephenambrosetours.com /tours/bandofb-it.html (1272 words)

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