505th Regimental Combat Team (505rct.org)

D-Day Wire Bulletins, June 1944.

Little Known Facts of the 82nd Airborne Division and the 505 Regimental Combat Team.

First Platoon of A Company poses for photograph after the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
made the first Regimental size parachute jump in United States Army history on March 29,1943 ............................

Allied Expeditionary Force Letter by General Dwight D. Eisenhower....(June 5,1944)................................................

(Shown Courtesy Sgt. James J. Ricci Collection)

The Battle of Fosse...........( As written for the Static Line -Tent City Edition of March 1945)......................................

Virginia Paratroopers participate in capture of St Mere Eglise, France .......................................................................

Maryland paratroopers jump into France hours before the D-Day invasion..................................................................

A collection of WW-II paratrooper postcards..................................................................................................................

The 541st-Parachute Infantry Regiment - A stateside training regiment sending replacements overseas.....................

Six paratrooper stories from the Stars and Stripes compiled by Andy Rooney...............................................................

All American booklet printed by Desfosse's Neogravure Paris, France in 1945...............................................................

"The Listening Post" - The first three issues of Company E's newsletter.........................................................................

Don Lassen of E company donates a rare D-Day "cricket" to the Eisenhower Museum..................................................

January 12th 1946 Grand Stand Pass to the New York City 5th Avenue Victory Parade for 82nd Airborne Division

1947 issue of Paraglide Magazine...................................................................................................................................

Static Line and Stars and Stripes Articles

Origin of the Static Line
Written by Bob Gillette.

Article from the unit history of the 628th Tank Destroyer Battalion

Medics In Sicily Keep A Weird Truce With German Tankers.....................................................................................................

(New information on news article uncovered in 2015)

Brochure for the 1953 Annual Convention of the 82nd Airborne Division

Photographs from Holland

Wooden Shoes from Holland

82nd Division Song - Christmas Cards from the Bulge

V-Mail Yuletide Greetings from a 505 Paratrooper

World War II Invasion Currencies

Safe Conduct Pass - Leaflets

German Armband - Patches - Czech cz-27

Staff Sergeant Harry Anderson answers Max's mail.

Tin plates from WW-I.....................................................................................................................................................

C - 47 Club Booklet

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