Index to the General Orders of the 501st Parachute Infantry PIR, in World War II

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Index to the General Orders of the 501st Parachute Infantry PIR, in World War II:
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Statistics:

Purple Heart Medal 7
Combat Infantryman Badge 2,855
Combat Medic Badge 102 Total Awards 2,964

This book has 111 pagesISBN 978-1-932891-34-8ISBN 1-932891-34-X

Library of Congress Control Number 2005-270655The 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment was assigned to the 2nd Airborne Infantry Brigade and detached to the 101st Airborne Division during combat operations

WWII Campaigns

This is the fifth a series of indexes of all infantry regiments and independent infantry battalions of the US Army in WWII. Others will be published as they are completed.

This work includes all decorations cited in the general orders of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment.* Please note that some decorations to members of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment may have been cited in general orders of other commands. Most awards of the Purple Heart Medal were cited in the general orders of the hospitals that the men were evacuated to or in divisional general orders and, therefore, not included in this work. This index lists members of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment that were awarded the Purple Heart Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge or the Combat Medic Badge by the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. Combat Infantryman Badges and Combat Medic Badges are important, since the recipients of these badges are retroactively entitled to a Bronze Star Medal, under Change 13 to Army Regulation 600-45, Department of the Army, 4 November 1947. I have made no attempt to list the Unit Awards, awards of specific Battle Stars, and Good Conduct Medals.

The 501st Parachute Infantry was attached to the 101st Airborne Division during all of the 101st Airborne Division’s combat operations; but as assigned to the 2nd Airborne Infantry Brigade, therefore, from a strictly technical point of view, was never an organic part of the division. I have overlooked this fact and listed members of the 501st Parachute Infantry as members of the 101st Airborne Division since they were associated with the 101st Airborne Division during all of the combat operations in which the 101st Airborne Division participated. The reason for this is that, it is commonly accepted that, even though 501st Parachute Infantry was attached to and not assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, that is was “part” of the 101st Airborne Division.

How to read the sources: (GO#12,1945,501PIR) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 12, 1945), “501PIR” (501st Parachute Infantry Regiment).

* It is not known if any of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment’s general orders are missing or not, but some of the general orders present were of such poor print quality that portions of them could not be transcribed at all.

I would like to thank Allan Henderson for providing me with the photographs of the 501st Parachute Infantry’s pocket patch and oval which appear on the cover of this work.

Every effort has been made to minimize errors and misspelled names. An error may be attributable to the source document, or may have occurred while transcribing the names/units. Some of the original documents are of very poor print quality, making them difficult to decipher.

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