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The 327th Infantry Regiment (Bastogne Bulldogs) [1] is an infantry regiment of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) of the United States Army. During World War II , the 327th was a glider-borne regiment of the 101st Airborne Division.
The 502d Infantry Regiment (2d Brigade) and 3d Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment were responsible for Mosul itself while the 187th Infantry Regiment (3d Brigade) controlled Tal Afar just west of Mosul. The 101st Airborne also participated in the Battle of Karbala.
The 101st Airborne Division ("Screaming Eagles") [1] is a specialized modular light infantry division of the US Army trained for air assault operations. [2] The Screaming Eagles has been referred to by journalists as "the tip of the spear" [3] as well as one of the most potent and tactically mobile of the U.S. Army's divisions. [4]
The regiment was originally constituted as the 187th Glider Infantry Regiment [2] on 12 November 1942, and activated on 23 February 1943 at Camp Mackall, North Carolina.It was originally a two battalion glider regiment assigned to the 11th Airborne Division, the men of the 187th trained both as glider and parachute troops.
Initially the American Glider Infantry Regiments (GIR) had only two battalions, but later in Europe, the two battalions of the 401st GIR were divided in March 1944 to act as the 3rd battalions of the 325th and 327th GIRs. In March 1945 the 401st Glider Infantry Regiment was disbanded and the battalions formally became part of their new regiments.
Battleground is a 1949 American war film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalbán, George Murphy, and James Whitmore.It follows a fictional company of the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division as they fight in the siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, in World War II.
During the Gulf War, Hancock was the youngest battalion commander in the 101st Airborne Division. On 24 February 1991, LTC Hancock’s battalion, 1st Battalion of 327th Infantry Regiment (United States), was the lead infantry element tasked with seizing the terrain necessary to establish Forward Operating Base (FOB) Cobra in Iraq. FOB Cobra was ...
The 101st Infantry Regiment was a formation of the United States Army, Massachusetts Army National Guard.Its history dates back to the American Civil War, and continued through the Spanish–American War, World War I, and World War II before being consolidated with Massachusetts' 182nd Infantry Regiment in 1992; the spirit of the 101st and its history live on in the 182nd Infantry and the 26th ...