Developed by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, Band of Brothers told the true story of the 101st Airborne Division of World War II. These soldiers were the first to implement dropping into combat and ...

He was 97 years old. Freeman was assigned to the U.S. Army’s Easy Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division in 1944 and was a mortarman.

Paratroopers (Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division) 1st Lieut. Thomas Meehan 1st Sgt. William S. Evans Staff Sgt. Murray B. Roberts Sgt. Elmer L. Murray Jr. Sgt. Richard E. Owen ...

Born Dec. 18, 1916 in LaSalle, Ill., he was drafted in 1942 and volunteered for the 101st Airborne. - AP ...

Shames, born in Norfolk, Virginia, on June 13, 1922, was a member of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.

The New York native was drafted out of high school in 1943 to Company H, 501st Parachutist Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, and slotted in as an incredibly green replacement in November ...

Alexander takes one detour in the book and traces the route taken by another Easy Company, this one in the 84th Division, and of a soldier named Pvt. Israel S. Gockley, his father-in-law.

Dablemont didn't even learn to read or write until after he returned home a decorated veteran from serving as a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division in World War II ...