The 506th PIR was an experimental Airborne Regiment created in 1942 at Camp Toccoa, Georgia. Easy Company missions were to be dropped from a C-47 Transport Airplane over various hostile territories. The units would parachute from the aircraft, and regroup once they had landed. The purpose of an experimental parachute regiment was to gain tactical advantage over the enemy; also as a fast access to wherever the unit needed to be mobilized.
1942年506伞兵团在乔治亚州塔克亚基地被实验性的建立,E连从C-47运输机被空降到各个敌人占领区。伞兵将从飞机上降落，一旦着陆就会重新组合。这个实验用的伞兵部队的任务是比敌人获得战术上的优势，作为一个能迅速到达任何地方的部队也需要动员 The training for Easy Company was not an easy task. Besides attending the standard Airborne school, the unit had to perform battle drills and excruciating amounts of physical training. One of the more famous exercises performed physical training was the running of Currahee. Currahee was a large, steep hill, up which the men of Easy Company had to run on a regular basis.
Also as part of their physical training, the members of Easy Company performed formation runs. Formation runs are formed into three-four column running groups. The purpose of this training was to first push the soldiers to their limits, and also to teach them how to work together as a team.
Operation Overlord (D-Day)霸王行动（D-DAY） Operation Overlord is the most well known Allied Forces invasion during World War Two. The mission of Easy Company was to be deployed from an airbase located in England, and be dropped over the area of Normandy, France. From there, their mission was to destroy German positions so that the Allied beach-front invasion could take place with a limited amount of Allied casualties. The troops were dropped into France at the early hours of the morning on June 6, 1944. This was to keep the deployment unnoticed to the Germans, and to keep the airplanes safe from anti-aircraft fire. Their mission was to spearhead the invasion of the beaches of Normandy.
Arnhem, Holland 阿纳姆，荷兰 Easy Company was assigned to support the British forces in Arnhem, by defending the roads so that the British armoured Divisions could successfully move into Arnhem and force a crossing over the major Rhine Bridge in that city. The battle of the British forces to keep control of the Arnhem occurred during September 1944.The story of the ill-fated Market Garden operation is told in the book and movie A Bridge Too Far. The battle ended with the surrender of British troops to the German Army. The immediate cause of the British defeat was the presence of powerful SS Armoured units in the immediate vicinity of Arnhem, however the underlying cause was the flawed assumption upon which Market Garden was based. . The logistical and tactical problems of attacking Arnhem from Nijmegen with armoured forces were actually pre-war Dutch Staff College major assessment tasks. Montgomery chose to use a plan containing the one solution that would have caused the students to fail if they had proposed it. The Dutch understood all too well that many stretches of the main road were, and are still, causeways across marshes and a well sited mine or anti-tank gun could clog the road for hours. Later, the Canadian Army regained control over the city.
Ardennes Forest and Bastogne, Belgium 阿登森林和巴斯托捏 比利时 Names of E Company fallen on the monument in Foy, Belgium During the months of December 1944 to January 1945, Easy Company and the rest of the 101st Airborne Division fought in Belgium in the Battle of the Bulge. The 101st was in France in December when the Germans launched their offensive in the Ardennes. They were met head on by retreating battle-shocked men into and through Belgium. They were told to hold the vital cross-roads at Bastogne and were soon encircled by the Germans. Easy Company fought during this period in cold weather, coming under German artillery fire. The soldiers had to make do without winter clothing and with limited rations and ammunition. The Allied Forces successfully turned the offensive around, and from this mission, Easy Company and the rest of the 506th PIR moved into Germany. To this day no person in the 101st has ever said that they needed to be "rescued" (as General Patton said when he rolled into Bastogne with his tanks).
Occupation duties Towards the end of the war, Easy Company was assigned to the occupation duty in Germany, specifically to Berchtesgaden, which was home to Adolf Hitler’s famous Eagle's Nest. Following Berchtesgaden, Easy Company moved in to Austria for occupational duties. The company mostly attended to various patrols, awaiting the end of the war.
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