A Company of Heroes
A blog dedicated to the memory of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne. Featured here will be pictures of the original World War 2 company as well as excerpts from the various books and biographies written about (and by) its members.
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John “Jack” McGrath in Normandy
Bill Guarnere at the American cemetery at Margraten, The Netherlands
Answer:
Hello anon! This particular Easy Company was in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, but pretty much every regiment of every division would have had an Easy Company as it was a standard designation for all 5th companies. “E” was “Easy” in the old military phonetic alphabet, you see - it’s been changed to “Echo” since (sometime in the 1950s I think) so any E Companies existing today would probably be referred to as Echo Company rather than Easy.
Hope this answers your question! :)
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An early Easy Co reunion: from left to right, first row - Amos ‘Buck’ Taylor, Shifty Powers, Herb Suerth Jr., Robert Rader and Ed Tipper; second row - Floyd Talbert, Wally Wentzel, Don Moone and Walter ‘Smokey’ Gordon
Some of second platoon at Toccoa - you can just glimpse Winters (a platoon lieutenant at the time) in the back, glancing down, and Skip Muck is on the right (looking somewhat cheeky!).
Easy Company in St. Marie-du-Mont - from left to right: Forrest Guth, Frank Mellet, David Morris, Daniel West, Floyd Talbert and C.T. Smith
