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During WWII the 505 Regimental Combat Team was made up of these units:
505 Parachute Infantry Regiment | 456 Parachute Field Artillery Bn. | B-307 Engineer Bn. | 307th Medical Company | 80th Anti-Aircraft Bn.

>>>Would you like to honor a 505 Regimental Combat Team veteran who served in any of the units listed above, just contact us by double clicking here or manually type in ContackMeAt@aol.com.

>>>>>Remembering the 83rd anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombing on December 7th 1941.

>>>>> The webmaster's father and six uncles' served in WW-II, four uncles' on his fathers' side of the family and three uncles' on his mothers' side. Pfc. Harry Schweikert kept a diary during the war. He sailed into Pearl Harbor March 13, 1942. Harry describes what he saw when sailing into Pearl Harbor on March 13, 1942. Also arriving in this first military convoy sailing to the Territory of Hawaii after the December 7th bombing was (then Sergeant) Jim Coyle of E company. (Also, there is a link on the Pearl Harbor web-page describing Harry's 1942 troop train trip across our country and the voyage across the Pacific Ocean on the USS Republic.)

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

>>>We have a November 7,2024 update to this story. Read how an American soldier got his name in six books about the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment. Was he a hero ? Facts available in the public domain say otherwise. Double click here and read this amazing story.

>>>Visit our veteran photograph archive web page (457 photos as of November 12, 2024.)>>>Read their individual stories on our Paratroopers' page.

>>Wondering why your 505 Regimental Combat Team veteran was discharged from the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, the 466th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, the 139th Airborne Engineer Battalion, or the 155 Airborne AA Battalion ? Click here for more information regarding veterans who served with the 505th Parachute Infantry or the 80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battalion. In June of 1945, aproximately one thousand 505 paratroopers were reassigned to the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment. This web page will also explain the veterans ASR Score (Army Service Rating Score), a point system that initially allowed veterans to be discharged after the war with a minimum cumlative score of 85 points.

Paratroopers of the 505 RCT

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Memorabilia ....New !
Normandy D-Day Prints
505-Rosters - September 14,2024
The latest edition of the 505th Parachute Infantry
Regiment and the 505th Regimental Combat
Team are now available in pdf file or Microsoft
excel. Earlier versions are not up to date.
Visit our roster web page !
New - September 14, 2024 - View corrections
made to the original 505 Regimental Combat
Team roster. This is a Word Document.
For a PDF document of corrections
click here 2x.

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WW-II enlistment records from 1938 to 1946 are availible here:
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