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Welcome to Aldbourne in Wilshire. A beautiful village and from 1943-4 home to Easy Company, 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne. Today we’ll see what was left behind by the

So, a brief thread from my trip to #Aldbourne today, following in the tracks of Lieutenant Richard Winters and the men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of

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Corporal Dewitt "Alabama" Lowrey was born April 22, 1922, near Atmore, Alabama, and grew up on the family farm. Lowrey served in Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne

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Pfc Alex M. Penkala was born Aug 30, 1924, in South Bend, Indiana. His parents, Mary and John, moved to the U.S from Poland in 1907. He was the 10th

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A copy of the schedule of the memorial service held on Sunday morning, 27th August, 1944, by the 506th PIR for the men KIA and missing in Normandy. The service

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Ronald Charles "Sparky" Speirs began active duty in the U.S Army on 11 April, 1942. He was sent to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, as a 2nd Lt and assigned to the

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Remembering nurse Augusta Chiwy who passed away Aug 23, 2015. Augusta risked her life many times in many ways during the Battle of the Bulge when she worked in the

I’m going to work back through my 1st album over a few days. This is the opener but the last track recorded. It’s a dream sequence inspired by Band of

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Ok this is a long thread on the circumstances of the shooting of Easy Company's Sgt Charles Grant.By mid-May, 1945, the 506th PIR were stationed in Austria. Duties were light,