Paratroopers of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment

This web page is dedicated to Billy J. Fleming

 Private First Class Billy J. Fleming was a paratrooper with company " D ". He was from Los Angeles, California and enlisted in the Army from his hometown on September 4th 1942.

   

 
 

D Companies Anti-Tank team, (left) Carl Stellato, (right) Billy Fleming and in front kneeling is George Fotovich.
(Photograph compliments of George Fotovich)

 
 
 

Private First Class Billy J. Fleming in Ireland (December 1943)

 
 
 

Billy's Vz-27 semi-automatic pistol manufactured for the German Army in Czechoslovakia.

 
 

Cover of Billy's 82nd Song card

 

 

M-43 German soft cap patch

 
 

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