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The plan called for first and Second Battalions of 506th Regiment, supported by Regimental Headquarters Company, to land on DROP ZONE C. This Zone was just to the south of BOUTTEVILLE and...
10 févr. 2018 · Plans were for troops of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Battalion of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division to land in ‘zone c’. Here behind Utah beach they were responsible for clearing a route for thousands of soldiers arriving by sea from England.
This monograph relates to the operations of the 1st Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, from D day to D plus 2 in the seizure of a beachhead on the Cotentin Peninsula near Carentan, France during the Normandy Campaign in June of 1944.
E Company landed on its designated drop zone in the Sonse Forest, northwest of Son, and marched down the road into Son behind the 2nd Battalion's other two companies. On reaching the Son Bridge, they were met by enemy harassing fire while the bridge was destroyed by the Germans.
A monument to the men of the 101st Airborne Division 506th P.I.R. "Easy" Company, located near Brecourt Manor outside the town of Sainte Marie du Mont on the site where at 08:30 on the 6th June 1944 Dick Winters and a team of 12 men collected from his own and other companies destroyed a German Artillery Battery which had been firing on forces ...
Les troupes au sol du débarquement de Normandie ayant solidement fixé leur tête de pont, la mission des troupes aéroportées est remplie et le 506th PIR est renvoyé en Angleterre pour une période de repos et d'entraînement.
Lt. Richard Winters asked himself as he pulled out of his parachute harness in the first hours of D-Day. Winters, a platoon commander in E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, found himself in France with only his jump knife for protection.
