COMBAT JUMP
Date:
8 November 1942
Units: 509th Parachute
Infantry Battalion (PIB)
Operation: TORCH
Troops: 556
Country: Algerie
Drop Zone: Tafaraoui,
Date:
15 Novembre 1942
Units: 509th
PIB
Operation: TORCH
Troops: 350
Country: Algerie
Drop Zone: Youks les Bains
Date:
24 December 1942
Units: 509th
PIB, 2 units french parachutes
Operation: TORCH
Troops: 32
Country: Tunisie
Drop Zone: El
Djem
Date:
9 July
1943
Units: 504th Parachute Infantry
Regiment 3rd Battalion (1st jump); 505th Regimental Combat Team (RCT),
Includes: 505th PIR, 456th PFA & Co.
B, 307th Engr.
Operation: HUSKY
I
Troops: 3.406
Country: Italy
Drop Zone: Gela
(near Ponte Olivo airport), Sicily
Date:
11
July 1943
Units: 504th Regimental Combat Team (RCT), Includes: 504th PIR, 1st & 2nd Btn.; 376th PFA & Co.C, 307th
Engr.
Operation:
HUSKY II
Troops:
2.304
Country:
Italy
Drop Zone: Gela,
Sicily
Date:
5 September 1943
Units: 503th
PIR
Operation: ALAMO
Troops: 1.700
Country:
New Guinea
Drop Zone: Nadzab, Markham Valley
Date:
13
September 1943
Units: 504th Regimental Combat
Team (RCT) Includes: 504th PIR, 376th PFA & Co.A,
307 Engr.
Operation:
AVALANCHE
Troops:
1.300
Country:
Italy
Drop Zone:
Date:
14 September 1943
Unis:
505th Regimental Combat Team (RCT). Includes: 505th PIR, 456th PFA & Co.B, 307 Engr.
Operation:
AVALANCHE
Troops:
2.105
Country:
Drop Zone: Salerno,
Paestum
Date:
14 September 1943
Unit: 509th
PIB
Operation: AVALANCHE
Troops: 640
Country: Italy
Drop Zone: Avellino
Date:
6 June 1944
Units:
82nd Airborne Division (507, 508) 505th RCT, Includes: 505th Parachute Infantry
Reg.,
Operation:
TITANIC (Jump of
paratrooper dummies: "Oscar")
Operation: OVERLORD
(NEPTUNE)
Troops: 6.418
Country: France
Drop Zone: Normandy
Date:
6 June 1944
Units:
101st Airborne Division [326, 377, 501, 502, 506]jumped at
1:40 am.
Operation: TITANIC
(Jump of paratrooper dummies: "Oscar")
Operation: OVERLORD
(NEPTUNE)
Troops: 6.638
Country: France
Drop Zone: Normandy
Date:
3 July 1944
Units: 503rd
PRCT, 1st Bn.
Operation: TABLE
TENNIS (CYCLONE)
Troops: 739
Country: New
Guinea
Drop Zone:
Noemfoor Island
Date:
4 July 1944
Units: 503rd
PRCT, 3rd Bn.
Operation: TABLE
TENNIS (CYCLONE)
Troops: 685
Country: New
Guinea
Drop Zone:
Noemfoor Island
Date:
15 August 1944
Units: 1st
Abn.
Task Force
(460th PFA, 463rd PFABn.; 509th PIB; 517th PCT; 551st PIB; 596th PCEng.
Co.) (Jump of 300
paratrooper dummies before the assault)
Operation: ANVIL
DRAGOON (RUGBY)
Troops: 5.607
Country: France
Drop Zone: Cote
d' Azur, Riviera
Date:
17 September 1944
Units:
82nd Airborne Division (508), 505th RCT, Includes: 505th PIR, 456th PFA, & Co.B,
307th Engr.; 504th RCT, Includes:
504th PIR, 376th PFA, & Co.A, 307 Engr
Operation: MARKET
GARDEN
Troops: 7.250
Country:
Holland
Drop Zone: Grave
& Nijmegen
Date:
17 September 1944
Units:
101st Airborne Division [501, 502, 506]
Operation: MARKET
GARDEN
Troops: 6.769
Country:
Holland
Drop Zone: Eindhoven
Date:
29 November 1944 - 5 December 1944
Units:
11th ABN. Div., Co.C, 127th Abn.Eng,
Bn. Co.C., 1st Pl.., 187th
P/GIR 221st AB. Med. Co.; 457th PFA 11th Abn. Div. Hdqt's Group 511th Pcht. Signal
Co. 11th Abn. Div. RECON Pl.
Parachuting 1 men at the same
moment on the tray "Tabletop" using planes Cub L4 and L5 and 1 C-47 which made
14 passages.
Operation:
TABLETOP
Troops: 241
Country:
Drop
Zone:
Manarawat
Date:
3 & 4 February 1945
Units:
11th ABN. Div., 511th PIR, 457th FABn.
Operation:
3/45
Jump of 240 paratrooper dummies (Oscar) on the Mountain Malepunyo before the
main assault.
Operation:
SHOESTRING
Troops: 1.830
Country:
Drop
Zone:
Tagaytay Ridge (North-west of
Date:
16 February 1945
Units:
503rd PRCT, 462nd PFABn; 161st Airborne
Engr. Btn.
Only assault air/sea.
Operation: TOPSIDE
Troops: 2.050
Country: Philippines
Drop Zone: Corregidor
Date: 23 February 1945
Units: 11th ABN. Div., 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment: 1st Btn., Co.B; Hdqt's
Co., 1st Btn.; Hdqt's
Operation: Sauvetage
(2.147 prisoners of war)
Troops: 130
Country: Philippines
Drop Zone: Los Banos Camp of prisoner
Date: 24 March 1945
Units: 17th Airborne Division (507 PIR, 513
PIR, 464 PFA, 466 PFA, 139 AEB, 224 AMC, 155 AAB, 411 AQM, 517 ASC, 680 GFA 681
GFA, 717 AOC & 194 GIR). Other small unities: MP's, Division Artillery, Reconnaissance Platoon, & Parachute
Maintenance Co.
Operation: VARSITY
Troops: 4.964
Country: Germany
Drop Zone: Wesel
Date: 23 June 1945
Units: 11th ABN. Div., 511th PIR
Operation: GYPSY
Troops: 1.030
Country: Philippines
Drop Zone: Aparri