NASMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "In Britain they were known as The Parachute Regiment, but their German enemies christened them ...

All members of the regiment were parachute volunteers, but only a minor fraction were actually qualified jumpers during training at Camp Toccoa. So, when that very arduous training was over, in March ...

Roy Hanna didn’t feel the rifle bullet as it struck his chest on a rainy battlefield near Anzio, Italy. He felt nothing as the bullet slipped between his ribs and pierced his right lung. But he heard ...

During their time in England, these Paratroopers became an integral part of the Quorn community. Many married several local women. This was not specific to the 505th PIR, but across the 82nd Airborne ...

Archive List > Books > Thomas E. Davies - 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment - My Story Archive List > World > Algiers Thomas Emyr (Tom) Davies (right) with four comrades in North Africa - 1942 The ...