A new book - Easy Company, 506th PIR, In Photographs, from Genesis Publications - contains over 400 rare and unseen photographs, many taken by the soldiers of Easy Company themselves. Easy Company ...
Bradford Clark Freeman, believed to be the last surviving original member of the historic World War II parachute infantry regiment of the U.S. Army known as Easy Company, died Sunday in Columbus, ...
At the end of World War II, the 101st Airborne Division settled in the stunning Austrian town of Zell am See. Colonel Bob Sink of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment chose the elegant Grand Hotel on ...
Popular history says Easy Company stormed in and “saved the day.” The real fight was bigger and messier. This on-location breakdown follows 3/506 PIR (E, G, H, I Companies), elements of 2/506 (F & HQ) ...
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- The Filthy Thirteen -- a nickname given to the 1st Demolition Section of the Regimental Headquarters Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, in World ...
Freeman was a paratrooper and private first class with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during the war. A mortarman, he parachuted into France at ...
“Saving Private Ryan” star Tom Hanks co-created the HBO series “Band of Brothers'' with director Steven Spielberg to tell the story of World War II’s Easy Company. The program follows the E Company of ...