Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment ... the first soldiers to begin the D-Day invasion. In response to news of Martin’s death, the 101st Airborne released a statement ...

As a result, many paratroopers on D-Day lost their important ... Elements of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, of the 101st Airborne were tasked to silence the German artillery.

Richard Winters, who led paratroopers from Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, during the D-Day landings. The memorial, unveiled 68 years after ...

On June 6, 1944, James Martin was among the first Allied paratroopers to jump into Normandy with the 101st Airborne, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment ... only survived D-Day; he would later ...

Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) run to the top of Currahee mountain as part of their two-day unit leader ...

Instead of taking flight on D-Day, he learned he’d be boarding a ship and arriving via sea with the 4th Infantry Division ... third day I joined with the 506th (infantry regiment) paratroopers.” ...

With more than 24 years of Army service, the Soldier better known as Bill parachuted with the 101st Airborne Division ... at Normandy. "On D-Day, the 4th Infantry Division only suffered 127 ...

Jim "Pee Wee" Martin is a World War II veteran who dropped into occupied France with the 101st Airborne, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment -- the famous "Band of Brothers" -- on D-Day, June 6 ...

506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division Related: 125 Weird History Facts 33. “All I could see was water, miles and miles of water. But this was D-Day and nobody went back to ...