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541st Parachute Infantry Regiment Shoulder Patch
(above picture)
541st PIR Patch











11th Airborne WW II
Medal of Honor Recipients

Pvt Elmer E Fryar
Pfc Manuel Perez Jr
The 541st Parachute Infantry Regiment
Trooper Pictures

S/Sgt Eldon E Loud

S/Sgt Eldon E. Loud
541st/511th PIR
Bronze Stars (2)

T/4 Clairborne L Cabaniss Sr

T/4 Clairborne L. Cabaniss
506th/541st PIR
Medic

Captain Leslie A Droge

Capt Leslie A Droge
508th/541st PIR
Srv Co


Sgt Harold Hogstrom (Courtesy: Andrea Richter)

Sgt Harold Hogstrom
541st PIR
Company Unknown

Pfc John P Murphy

Pfc John P Murphy
541st PIR
Company Unknown

(June 30, 1945) PFC Odeen Tyre, Company G, 187th Glider Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division, 
          Lipa Field, Luzon, Philippines. PVT Tyre had arrived in Manila on USS Johnson on June 20, 1945 as part of
           Colonel Ducat McEntee's 541st Parachute Infantry Regiment only to be deactivated and reassigned to 11th AB as replacement.

Pfc Odeen Tyre
187th/541st PIR
Co G


M/Sgt Leonadis Stanley Talbott - 188th RHQ(Courtesy: B Jeffries)

M/Sgt L. Stanley Talbott
188th/541st PIR
Band Director






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
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
Brooks, Victor Hell is Upon Us: D-Day in the Pacific-Saipan to Guam, June-August 1944. Da Capo Press, (Sept 2005) 384 p. ISBN: 0306813696
Davis, Donald A Lightning Strike: The Secret Mission to Kill Admiral Yamamoto and Avenge Pearl Harbor. New York: St. Martin Press, (March, 2005) 400 p. ISBN: 0-312-30906-6
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
Devlin, Gerard S  Paratrooper! St Martin's Press, (P) c1976 ISBN: 0312596529
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
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
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
O'Donnell, Patrick K. Beyond Valor  Free Press, 2001, 384 p. ISBN: 0684873842
O'Donnell, Patrick K. Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat  Free Press, 3/13/2002, 320 p. ISBN: 0743214803
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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