You can always read about the recorded history of the
505th, but if you
really want to hear the details, you have
to hear it from those that lived it.
This section of the
website will feature stories from the men themselves.
Lt. Colonel Ben Vandervoorts account of the Battle for Trois Ponts, Belgium.
In a letter to Bill Meddaugh and the men of Easy company 2nd/505.
Belgian Boy
Typical Day in Normandy
Hurtgen Forest
The Night Mook, Holland Burned
Group of pictures displayed for CSM (Ret) Horace Pearl
Donald W. McKeage's account of the Battle of the Bulge
Wheatley "Chris" Christensen's "The Battle of Grand-Halleux"
Wheatley "Chris" Christensen's "Bulge Memories"
Naples to Normandy by Wheatley "Chris" Christensen
Poem: "F" Company at Arnone
by Lt. John H. Dodd
From War to a Belguim Home
By Edwin A. Alexander, Company B, 307 Airborne Engineers
The Horace Pearl Story
6 time Combat Jumper Horace Pearl's story submitted by his daughter Lynn Chambers
The Sgt James Yates Story
Outstanding story writen by his son Frank Yates
La Fiere Bridge D-Day June 6,1944
Marcus Heim for his display of valor here would reiceive the DSC. An excellent story
Anecdotesof the Battle of the Bulge
Short stories submitted by Thomas Horgan
Remembrances of Petit Halleux 1944
PFC. Malcolm Neel, A Battery, 80th Abn. Bn. 82nd Airborne Division
Battle of Grand Halleux
WRITTEN BY JO ANN GILPIN AS TOLD BY RAYMOND DAUDT CO. G 505 PIR
(Story correction; Pfc. William Sanchez KIA 12-22-44 was from (and born in) Hayward, California.)
The Story of Sergeant Frederick W. Randall
First Sergeant of H. Company 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division
ARMY LIFE AS REMEMBERED BY NORBERT P. BEACH
(Dictated to Paula DeForrest) January 2003
Bill Blank's WWII story
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Some files may be in Acrobat (PDF) format, if you are unfamiliar with the Adobe Acrobat Reader format then visit the
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download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software that will allow you to read
some of the above stories.
