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16-168 Garand Picture of the Day - 506th PIR Camp Tocca
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Could that be1st. Lt. Sobel in the background?
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Could that be1st. Lt. Sobel in the background?
could be - notes for that one did say E C0. 506th
I tend to tire of hearing about E Co. 506th because everyone knows that they are the only company in the only airborne division of WW2
that is why I left it off.
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Mark in Rochester
could be - notes for that one did say E C0. 506th
I tend to tire of hearing about E Co. 506th because everyone knows that they are the only company in the only airborne division of WW2
that is why I left it off.
I Get that.
I look at it as that the familiar few names stories etc.. associated with easy company are in some measure representitive of the many whose names and stories we will never know.
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By the way, we had Ed Shames, 506 PIR, at work on Monday.
Bob
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I just started "Into Hell," the new book on a guy in the 501st from Normandy through the Bulge. Will let you know.
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Burgett wrote a 4 book series on 101st excellent
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An interesting irony about the book Currahee is that it covers the guys who never ran Currahee. 
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By the way, we had Ed Shames, 506 PIR, at work on Monday.
Bob
What is the rest of the story ?
Did not think they gave him a fair depiction in B.O.B.
Shames read about and applied for duty with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. In August 1942, Shames was called to active duty. He was sent to Toccoa, Georgia for training, starting as a private in Item Company, 3rd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment.[1]
In England
, Shames was promoted to Operations Sergeant.[2] Prior to the paratroopers making their jump on D-Day, he built the sand tables the airborne unit used in planning the airdrop into Normandy.
Shames made his first combat jump into Normandy on D-Day as part of Operation Overlord. On 13 June 1944, he received a battlefield commission to second lieutenant, although the formal commission was completed in England.[3] He was the first NCO in the Third Battalion to receive such a commission in Normandy.[4] He was transferred to Easy Company and took charge of its third platoon.
Shames fought with Easy Company in Operation Market Garden and volunteered for Operation Pegasus led by Frederick Heyliger. He was wounded once in his left leg during the campaigns. He then fought with the rest of E Company in the Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne. In Foy, Shames and Paul Rogers knocked out a German tank with a bazooka.In Germany, he saw some of the concentration camps in which the Germans imprisoned Europe's Jews and was deeply affected, because he is Jewish.
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Did not think they gave him a fair depiction in B.O.B.
That was my thought. They showed him as a young under-experienced Lt...that yelled all the time...
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