506th Infantry Regiment
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The 506th Infantry Regiment, originally designated the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II, is an airborne light infantry regiment of the United States Army. Currently a parent regim
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Kenneth Michael Kays receiving the Medal of Honor from U.S. President Richard Nixon
Soldiers from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment patrolling the Korean Demilitarized Zone near GP Ouellette in 1987
Iraqi National Police and U.S. Army Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, discover a weapons cache in Dora, Baghdad on 8 Oct. 2006.
Richard Winters
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Richard Davis Winters was a United States Army officer who served as a paratrooper in "Easy Company" of the 506th Infantry Regiment within the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Winters was
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…Mission Albany night drop on the morning of D-Day. The most famous action for the 506th on D-Day was the Brécourt Manor Assault led by 1st Lieutenant Richard Winters. Later, they fought in the Battle of Carentan. The unit had been promised that they would be in battle for just three days, but the 506th did not return…
Portrait of Winters in his dress uniform
Winters at Camp Toccoa, 1942
Winters in 2004
The Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument near Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy, France