The 501st Infantry Regiment, previously the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment and 501st Airborne Infantry Regiment, is an airborne forces regiment of the United States Army with a …

2016年4月22日 · As to matters on lineage, on 25 April 1957, the 501st Regiment ceased to exist as a tactical unit and was redesignated as the 501st Infantry, a parent regiment under the …

As part of the 101st Airborne the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment parachuted near the town of Veghel, 25 miles behind the German front lines. The 501st was specifically tasked to drop 4 …

A website dedicated to the men that served in Item Company 501st PIR from it's creation to deactivation at the end of the Second World War. On the pages that follow you will find …

2024年2月8日 · With Colonel Howard R. "Jumpy" Johnson commanding, the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) was constituted and activated at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, on 15 …

Birth of a Regiment Frank van Lunteren,2022-09-06 Activated in May 1942, the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment earned high praise for its very first mission when it effected the first U.S. …

On 16 September 1940, the US Army issued and order to constitute the 1st Parachute Battalion, this was later amended on 26 September 1940 to the 501st Parachute Battalion. The reason …

The 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment was in contact with the German forces along the Neder Rijn front in the Netherlands. They were located on an island just below Arnhem between the …

The 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (501 PIR) lineage can be traced back to the 29th Infantry Regiment which spawned a volunteer group known as the Parachute Test Platoon on June 26, …

On July 1, 1940 the 48-man Parachute Test Platoon was formed at Ft Benning, Georgia, to test training methods, equipment, and jump techniques. This was deemed successful, and the 1st …