(above insignia)517th PIR Patch
517th PIR WW II
Medal
of Honor Recipient
Pfc Melvin E Biddle
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517th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Trooper Pictures
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Pfc Melvin E Biddle
517th PIR (MOH)
Company B |
Capt Charles E La Chausee
517th PIR
CO Company C |
Pfc John B Dickson
517th PIR
Company A |
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Pfc Robert Lee Crawford
517th PIR
Company A |
Cpl Jack W Dallas
517th PIR Co A
KIA 8 Feb 45 |
Pvt Frank Barringer
517th PIR Co C
KODY 13 Apr 45 |
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1/Sgt E. W. Bolin
517th PIR
Company C |
Cpl Albert J Caraciolo
517th PIR Co C
KIA 14 Jan 44 |
Pfc Joseph B. Egelhof
517th PIR
Company D |
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Pfc S.E.Emmons Jr
517th PIR
Company D |
Pfc Daniel L Ogniewski
517th PIR Co D
KIA 4 Nov 1944 |
Pvt William F Thorng
517th PIR Co D
KIA 4 Sept 44 |
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Pfc Donald G Barry
517th PIR
Company G |
Sgt Darwynn Beer
517th PIR
Company G |
Pfc Donald Cheney
517th PIR
Company G |
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Pvt John F Henwood
517th PIR
Company G |
Pfc James Ledgin
517th PIR
Company G |
Sgt George Mills
517th PIR Co G
KIA 19 January 1945 |
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Pvt Layton Pippin
517th PIR Co H
KIA 5 January 1945 |
Pfc Edward Gunn
517th PIR
Company I |
Pfc William J Eckart Jr
517th PIR Co I
KIA 27 December 1944 |
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Pfc William H Faltysek
517th PIR
Company Hq |
1/Lt Harry E Riddle
517th PIR
Company F |
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Lt Gerald V Woodard
517th PIR
Company G |
1/Lt Hillard B Thomas
517th PIR Co H
KIA 19 Sept 1944 |
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Maj Thomas R Cross
517th PIR
2nd Bn XO |
Lt Col Melvin Zais
517th PIR
Executive Officer |
1/Lt John A Alicki
517th PIR
Hq Company |
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2/Lt Floyd Louis Coil
517th PIR
Service Company |
Captain John N Nieler
517th PIR
Regimental S-2 |
Major Herbert M Bowlby
517th PIR
Regimental S-3 |
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Capt Marshall McDonald Jr
517th PIR
IE Officer |
Pfc Robert H Yates
517th PIR
Bronze Star |
T/5 John C Wyatt
517th PIR Svrc Co
KIA 28 Jun 44 |
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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
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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