(above insignia)
517th PIR Patch
517th PIR WW II
Medal
of Honor Recipient
Pfc Melvin E Biddle
R E S O U C E
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517th Parachute Infantry Regiment
1st Battalion - Trooper Pictures
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Company A |
Pfc James L Baney
517th PIR Co A
KIA 8 Feb 1945 |
Pvt Melvin E Cole
517th PIR Co A
KIA 5 Jan 1945 |
Pfc Robert Lee Crawford
517th PIR
Company A |
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Cpl Jack W Dallas
517th PIR Co A
KIA 8 Feb 1945 (SS OLC) |
Pfc Fred Davalos
517th/551st
Company A |
Pfc John B Dickson
517th PIR
Company A |
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Pvt Jesse Ellington
517th PIR Co A
DODY 1 Oct 1943 |
Pvt Calvin Haar
517th PIR
Company A |
S/Sgt Richard G Hollister
517th PIR
Company A |
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Sgt Albert R Wise
517th PIR Co A
KIA 5 Jan 1945 (BS) |
Capt Joseph Broudy
517th PIR Co A
Commanding Officer (BS) |
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Company B |
Pfc Melvin E Biddle
517th PIR (MOH)
Company B |
Pfc Francis A Bloom
517th PIR Co B
KIA 3 Jan 1945 |
Cpl James C Carpenter
517th PIR Co B
Bronze Star Recipient |
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Pvt Ian Cowan
517th PIR
Company B |
Sgt John Raul D Flores
517th PIR
Company B |
Pvt Doyle E Gray
517th PIR Co B
KIA 2 Feb 1945 |
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Pfc David B Haight
517th PIR Co B
KIA 27 Sept 1944 |
Cpl Frank W Hayes
517th PIR Co B
KIA 8 Feb 1945 (BS[OLC]) |
Pvt Harry A Hill
517th PIR
Company B |
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Pfc Michael Hreben Sr
517th PIR Co B
DOW 17 Feb 1945 |
Sgt David A Rivers
517th PIR Co B
KIA 23 Dec 1944 (SS) |
S/Sgt Joseph F Van Ness
517th PIR Co B
KIA 31 Aug 1944 (BS) |
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Cpl C. Van Regenmorter
517th PIR Co B
Silver Star Recipient |
1/Lt Thomas L Rea
517th PIR Co B
KIA 9 Feb 1945 |
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Company C |
Pvt Frank Barringer
517th PIR Co C
KODY 13 Apr 1945 *[Repl] |
1/Sgt E. W. Bolin
517th PIR
Company C |
Sgt Stanley S Brown
517th PIR Co C
KIA 24 Dec 1944 |
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Cpl Albert J Caraciolo
517th PIR Co C
KIA 14 Jan 45 |
Cpl Edward J Lang
517th PIR Co C
KIA 24 Dec 1944 |
Pvt Alvie F Ren
517th PIR Co C
KIA 5 Jan 1945 |
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Pvt Carl G Salmon
517th PIR Co C
DOW 17 Aug 1944 (SS) |
Pfc Tildon W Shaddox
517th PIR Co C
DOW 9 Feb 1945 |
T/5 John D Wilkins
517th PIR Co C
KIA 5 Jan 1945 |
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2/Lt Roland A Beaudoin
517th PIR Co C
KIA 24 Dec 1944 |
Capt Charles E La Chausee
517th PIR
CO Company C |
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Headquarters Company 1st Battalion (HQ 1)
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Pvt Lincoln W Ackerman
517th PIR Co Hq 1
KIA 16 Jan 1945 |
Pvt Robert (Bobby) Fidler
517th PIR Co Hq 1
DOW 23 Dec 1944 |
Cpl Daniel A Fisher
517th PIR Co Hq 1
KIA 15 Aug 1944 |
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Pfc William W Gorsuch
517th PIR Co Hq 1
Bronze Star Recipient |
Pfc Ed Henzl
517th PIR
Company HQ 1 |
Pfc George E Marshall
517th PIR
Company HQ 1 |
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Pfc Dervyn F Muth
517th PIR Co Hq 1
KIA 14 Jan 1945 |
Pfc Gerald Nelson
517th PIR Co Hq 1
1st Battalion |
Cpl Eugene L Taylor
517th PIR Co Hq 1
KIA 18 June 1944 |
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LTC William J Boyle
517th PIR
1st Bn CO (DSC) |
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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
Annussek, Greg Hitler's Raid to Save Mussolini: The Most Infamous Commando Operation of World War II. Sept 1, 2005, Da Capo Press, 353 pp. ISBN: 0306813963
Archer, Clark Paratroopers
Odyssey : A History of the 517th Parachute Combat Team. 266p., 1985, ISBN: 0961601507
Astor, Gerald 'Battling
Buzzards': The Odyssey of the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team 1943-1945. 338p.,
7/93, Donald I Fine Pub, ISBN: 0440236932
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
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
Devlin, Gerard S
Paratrooper! St Martin's Press, (P) c1976 ISBN: 0312596529
Eberle, Henrik & Matthias Uhl (editors)
The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin November 14, 2005, PublicAffairs Pub, 416 p. ISBN: 1586483668
Gassend, Jean-Loup Operation Dragoon: Autopsy of a Battle: The Allied Liberation of the French Riviera August-September 1944 Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. (May 28, 2014), 560 p. ISBN: 076434580X
Gavin, James M.
On to Berlin : Battles of an Airborne Commander, 1943-1946 ISBN: 0670525170
Hastings, Max Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy Simon and Shuster(JUV), 396 p.
ISBN: 0671554352
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
Ingrisano, Michael N. Jr And Nothing is Said:
Wartime Letters, August 15, 1943 - April 21, 1945 Sunflower
University Press, Sept 2002, 540p. ISBN: 0897452631
Irwin, Will (Lt. Col [RET.])
The Jedburghs: The Secret History of the Allied Special Forces, France 1944 Sept 6, 2005, PublicAffairs Pub, 323 p. ISBN: 1586483072
Keegan, John The Second World War Penguin
(P), 708 p. ISBN: 014011341X
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
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