We hope that our album provides researchers, historians, students and others a reasonable profile of the kind of men who went to war as WW II paratroopers.
The complete story of Hq1 can't be told - unheard are those who ought to be heard and honored - our comrades who made the supreme sacrifice on the battlefields in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany, and those who have died in the postwar years.
The 508th PIR did not single-handedly defeat the Third Reich in WW II --- far from it. However, we accomplished more, with less equipment, less food, and without transportation, than comparable units.
We were in combat for only one hundred fifty-four days. When we did go into battle the fighting was tough, the costs were high - two thousand and seventy battle casualties of whom six hundred and twenty-two men were killed and/or died of wounds, and two hundred and fifty-four men were reported missing in action.
We never forget them! | 
