(above picture)509th PIB Patch
509th PIB WW II
Medal
of Honor Recipient
Cpl Paul B Huff
Silver Star Recipients
T/4 Eugene C Beckner
Pfc Joseph R Blackwood
Pfc William R Bowers
1/Lt Richard Grabow
Sgt Robert E League
Pvt Joseph T Martin
S/Sgt Wilbur D Martin
T/5 Alfred C Petzold
Cpl Travis J Russell
Capt Herbert Rose
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The 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion
Trooper Pictures
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Col Doyle R Yardley
509th PIB - POW
Commanding Officer |
Cpl Paul B Huff
509th PIB (MOH)
Company A |
Pfc Joseph R Blackwood
509th PIB Co A
Silver Star Recipient |
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1/lt Dan A DeLeo
509th PIB
Company A |
Pvt Larry J Ducote
509th PIB Co B
KIA 25 Aug 1944 |
Pvt Philip K Nachefski
509th PIB Co B
KIA 20 Jan 1945 |
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Sgt Jack Berger
509th PIB
Company C |
T/4 Roger Derringer
509th PIB
Company C |
Cpl William Price
509th PIB
Company E |
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Pfc Rex D Sexton
509th PIB Co F
KIA 19 Aug 1944 |
Sgt Harvey S Sutherland
509th PIB Co F
Bronze Star |
T/5 Walter A Cherry
509th PIB Hq Co
KIA 15 Sept 43 |
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S/Sgt Robert Bob Corey
509th PIB
Hq Company |
Pfc Ralph V Hirales
509th PIB
KIA 25 Aug 1944 |
Pfc Ray Conklin
509th PIB
Bronze Star |
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Pfc Edward A Peterson
509th PIB
Demolition Specialist |
Pvt Norman P Smith
509th PIB
Company Unknown |
Sgt Samuel G Thomas
509th PIB
Company Unknown |
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Cpl John P Young
509th PIB
KIA Belgium |
1/Lt E. T. Siegel
509th PIB
Platoon Leader |
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books
R E L A T E D B O O K S
Ambrose, Stephen E D-DAY June 6,1944:
The Climatic Battle of WW II. 6/93, Simon & Shuster ISBN: 0671673343
Badsey , Stephen & Chandler, David G (Editor)
Arnhem 1944:
Operation "Market Garden" (Campaign No.24) 1993
96p. ISBN: 1855323028
Breuer, William B Geronimo! American
Paratroopers in WWII. New York: St. Martin Press, 1989 621 p. ISBN: 0-312-03350-8
Breuer, William B Operation Dragoon:
The Allied Invasion of the South of France. Presidio Press, Sept 1987 261 p. ISBN: 0891413073
D'Este, Carlo
Patton: A Genius for War 1024 pp ISBN: 0060927623
De Trez, Michel
At the Point of No Return : Pictorial History of the American Paratroopers in the
Invasion of Normandy 7/98, D-Day Pub, 200 p. ISBN: 2960017617
De Trez, Michel
First Airborne Task Force: Pictorial History of the Allied Paratroopers in the
Invasion of Southern France 7/98, D-Day Pub, 500 p. ISBN: 2960017625
Gavin, James M.
On to Berlin : Battles of an Airborne Commander, 1943-1946 ISBN: 0670525170
Golden, Lewis Echoes From Arnhem Penguin
ISBN: 0718305213
Hicks, Anne The Last Fighting General: The Biography of Robert Tryon Frederick Schiffer Pub Ltd, 320pp, ISBN: 0764324306
Inglesby, Leo C A Corporal Once Xlibris
2/2/2001, 108 p. ISBN: 0738838209
MacDonald, Charles B A Time For
Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge Wm Morrow & Co
(P), 720 p. ISBN: 068151574
McKenzie, John
On Time, On Target Novato, CA: Presidio, May 15,2000. 304 p. ISBN: 089 141 714 1
Ryan, Cornelius
A Bridge Too Far 670p. ISBN: 0684803305
Wildman, John B All Americans 82nd
Airborne. Meadowlands Militaria, 6/83 ISBN:091 208 1007
The Center of Military History The War in the Mediterranean: A WWII Pictorial History Brasseys, Inc.,
465 p. ISBN:1574881302
Yardley, Doyle R
Home Was Never Like This. Yardley Enterprises, Aug, 2002, 312 p. ISBN:0971743908
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