The Band Of Brothers Actors on the Normandy Set .

The real 506 PIR troopers during their record march from Camp Toccoa to Atlanta and Fort Benning , 136 miles in 72 hours .

2nd BN 506th PIR (HQ)

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 A 506 PIR helmet found in Normandy

photo from Paul E. Lamoureux (E Co, 2nd BN, 506th PIR, 1944-1945)

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 US Airborne Troopers ready for an exercise jump .

                                        THE CAMP TOCCOA AIRBORNE MEMORIAL

Photos by Joe Rice

Airborne Memorial at Camp Toccoa Georgia.

Twenty-two children from Beuzeville au Plain each laid a flower as the Mayor named the 5 flight crew members and the 17 Easy Company, 2nd BN, 506th PIR paratroopers who were killed in the 6 June 1944 crash of Plane #66. Headed for war-torn Europe, a C-47 skims just above the cloud tops Pathfinder plane 4 shot down on D-Day. Pathfinder Richard Wright standing second from the left. Sitting fourth from the left, co-pilot Hal Sperber.

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