Parachute Regiment

Gavin would parachute northeast of the 101st. The British 1st Airborne Division under the command of Major General Roy Urquhart and the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade under the command of Brigadier General Stanislaw Sosabowski would parachute in and seize the rail bridge of Oosterveek and the road bridge at Arnhem. Garden represented the ground forces under the command…

Just minutes after midnight, the attack began. The 101 Paratroopers had jumped into Normandy. Their objective was to capture the town of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, seize the major exits to Utah Beach, and gain control of the Western part of Normandy. On the Eastern flank of Normandy, the 6th British Airborne Division landed at the Caen Canal and at the Orne river bridges. With help from Major Howard, they captured the bridge and prepare for a counterattack from Germany. I sat, waiting patiently on the…

The Night Witches where a group of all female bomber pilots. They ranged in age from late teens to early twenties. This group made the Soviet Union the first nation to allow women to fly combat missions for the war efforts. The name “Night Witches” is a nickname that was given to them by the Nazi soldiers. This nickname was due to the fact that when they went near their target they would cut off their plane engines, the only sound heard was the “swooshing” of the planes; similar to that of a…

Allies won the war because of a group effort. In all reality this is very true. But if it wasn’t for Easy Company on the front lines in Normandy on D-Day we may have lost the war. The “Band of Brothers” were the men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, an elite group of WWII war fighters. They parachuted into Normandy on D-Day June 6th 1944 and later into Holland for Operation Market-Garden September 17th 1944. They fought in Belgium, Netherlands, France,…

The US Army is a profession. For 242 years volunteers joined the US Army to serve together under one common cause, with the same standard core objectives, which are to maintain and protect the ambitions framed within the United States Constitution. US Army organizes and controls its forces through the use of professionally established standards. “A professional is a volunteer certified as an expert, in the case of the US Army, in the profession of arms to support the projection land…

Introduction September 17, 1944, Allied forces commenced the largest airborne operation, code name Operation Market-Garden, which took place in Holland in order to make way for Allied forces, both ground and air to advance through Holland into Germany. The scheme of the operation was an idea by Field Marshall Sir Bernard Montgomery, which he had convinced the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight Eisenhower in approving Operation Market-Garden, which called for a direct thrust towards the…

Mutaguchi and Subhas C. Bose (from Azad Hind). These commanders attempted to attack with 3 infantry divisions and 1 tank regiment. These attacks were successfully defended by allied with a loss of 12,603 wounded or injured commanded by William slim, Geoffrey Scoones and Jack Baldwin. They successfully defended this attack using 4 infantry divisions, 1 Armoured Brigade and 1 Parachute Brigade. The battle of kohima was the change of the Operation C offensive attack into India. The Battle of Kohima…

declined to accept his position and power. The French had got themselves into a troublesome military position. In November 1953, the French sent men from their split Parachute Regiment to Vietnam. It was characteristically accepted by the French that this unit would overcome the untrained Viet Minh guerrillas. In May 1954, the regiment was assaulted by the North Vietnamese and surrendered, which came as a shocking hit to the French individuals. In April 1954, the world's forces had met at Geneva…

was a risk taker because on, November 1948 he volunteered to test parachutes for the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment in Japan. He jumped one hundred and fifty times in two years. Throughout his career with, Airborne Infantry, he managed to jump 300 times. As a leader he was, risk taker was one of his leadership character he mainly possess. He didn’t think twice jumping out of a plane at a high altitude using experimental parachutes. Courage is what he had during those times and that’s what made…

My visit to New Orleans, Louisiana was extravagant. It was a school sponsored field trip. I had a chance to see the heritage of New Orleans. That day was hot and a little windy. My friends and I were excited about getting to see something new. I visited the World War II Museum, saw a 4D movie about World War II, and went to the River walk. The first place we went when we made it was to the World War II Museum which has over 100,000 artifacts. Other schools were there also. As soon as we entered…