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| | I would like to extend my personal welcome to all who visit our website i hope you find it fairly easy to navigate to all new recruits welcome to your first step into the gameplay of realism we are looking for players not only that have skill but would enjoy the fun and organized gameplay of realism. Realism is what we do, scrimming other units, inter-unit scrims and public scrims. If you have any questions or are interested in enlisting Sign up on our forums, join up with the men, Volunteer to join the Airborne Today. Signed, |
| 517th PIR History | |
During World War II, the 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment (517th PIR) was a separate infantry regiment of the United States Army, at times attached to the 17th Airborne Division, 82nd Airborne Division and later, the 13th Airborne Division.During most of their combat, the unit was an independent combined force of 17th Airborne troops called the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team or 517th PRCT / PCT / RCT.The unit formed in early 1943 and trained at Camp Toccoa, Georgia. The 517th saw heavy fighting in Italy in June 1944, before being transferred to take part in Operation Dragoon in August 1944, in Southern France, which happened to be their first combat jump. Following the liberation of France, the 517th was attached to the 82nd Airborne Division and fought with it in Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge. Following the end of World War II, the 517th was assigned to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where the unit was deactivated on 25 February, 1946. |
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