1942 502nd Historical and Pictorial Review

[riflegreen297]

Lately, I have been collecting Airborne "yearbooks". I figured I would share one of my latest additions to the yearbook collections. It is a 1942 published book that covers the activation, training of the 502nd Airborne BN. While the outside is labled 502nd Parachute BN, it covers the 503rd and the 504th also. It has photos for each battalion's first BN CDR, BN Staff and the company command teams along with the officers and enlisted of the companies. If figured I would post some of the most interesting images that showing some young Captains and Majors that we all know as later on as Regimental and Divison CDRs. I am still going thru the book and I hope you Airborne history geeks enjoy these types of things as much as this one does.

THE COVER

THE INSIDE PAGE

THE COMMANDER

HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL PARACHUTE GROUP

THE STAFF SHOPS OICs:
The S1- who would later be the CDR of the 508th and post war be the CDR of the 187th RGCT.

THE S2- who would later be the CDR of the 509th and become the Father of the Modern Special Forces

The S3- who would later be the CDR of the 505th and the 82nd ABN


THE ASST ADJUTANT CPT Ekman who would take command of the 505th after Gavin and would become the second CDR of the 10th Special Forces Group after COL Aaron Bank.