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#1: 555th PIR 1944-1947 OR One Triple Nickle times 2 Author: SSG Felder, Location: Germany

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:12 pm
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Hey Fellas here is my latest Figure/s...YEAH,YEAH...nothing fancy....No Weapons...Now what the heck is wrong with me???

OK now...I had this in mind forever....and DID,did me a favor in realeasing M42`s and Class A´s in one package.....
Here is a little History class:

The 555th PIR, was activated as a result of a recommendation made in December 1942 by the Advisory Committee on Negro Troop Policies, chaired by the Assistant Secretary of War, John J. McCloy. In approving the committee's recommendation for a black parachute battalion, Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall decided to start with a company, and on February 25, 1943 the 555th Parachute Infantry Company was constituted.

On December 19, 1943, Headquarters, Army Ground Forces, authorized the activation of the company as an all-black unit with black officers as well as black enlisted men. All unit members were to be volunteers, with an enlisted cadre to be selected from personnel of the 92d Infantry Division at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

The company was officially activated on December 30, 1943 at Fort Benning, Georgia. After several months of training, the unit moved to Camp Mackall, North Carolina, where it was reorganized and redesignated on November 25, 1944 as Company A of the newly-activated 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion.

The battalion did not serve overseas during World War II. However, in May 1945 it was sent to the west coast of the United States to combat forest fires ignited by Japanese balloons carrying incendiary bombs. Although this potentially serious threat did not materialize, the 555th fought numerous other forest fires. Stationed at Pendleton Field, Oregon, with a detachment in Chico, California, unit members courageously participated in dangerous fire-fighting missions throughout the Pacific Northwest during the summer and fall of 1945, earning the nickname "Smoke Jumpers" in addition to "Triple Nickles." The only fatality in the unit died while jumping on August 6, 1945.

Soon after returning to Camp Mackall in October 1945, the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion was transferred to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, its home for the next two years. During this period the unit was attached to the elite 82d Airborne Division. When the battalion was inactivated on December 15, 1947, most of its personnel were reassigned to the division's organic 3d Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment

OK,OK....enough BLA BLA BLA

Here goes the Figures:

#2: Author: cablecommander, Location: Los Angeles, CA

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:26 pm
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nice figure, ssg. I have one of those planned also, but glad to see that someone else has done one.

CC

#3: Author: johkaz, Location: West Sussex

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:06 pm
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Hi,

Those are two very nice figures.
I also have something similar planned ,and it is nice to see that someone has beaten me to it.

Gary

#4: Author: b24man, Location: Texas

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:02 pm
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Awesome figures and well deserved tribute!

#5: Author: SSG Felder, Location: Germany

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:19 pm
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Very Happy

...Thanks for leaving a comment guys.....

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