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US Parachute Rifle Platoon (US723)

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All Parachute Rifleman are volunteers. They are some of the best motivated, best trained, best paid, and the best dressed troopers in the US Army.

Parachute Rifle Companies are the bravest of the brave. No one else would leap out of a perfectly good aircraft deep over enemy-held territory.

With the best equipment going around including M1 Garand rifles, gammon bombs, light air cooled M1919A4 machine-guns, an M1 Bazooka, M2 60mm mortar, a smattering submachine-guns and a never say die attitude, these guys are ready to take on all comers.

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US Parachute Rifle Platoon (US723) Parachute Operations In Tunisia, Sicily and Italy

The 504th and 505th Parachute Infantry Regiments were part of the 82nd ‘All American’ Airborne Division, the Army’s first airborne division, and the first to be sent overseas.
However, the first combat jump was made by the independent 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion in November 1942 as part of Operation Torch.

The 509th then dropped on the airfield at Youks les Bains and raided a bridge at El Djem before fighting the rest of the North African campaign as regular infantry.
The first combat drop of the 504th and the 505th was Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, in July 1943. Their second combat drop reinforced the Salerno beachhead in mid-September, where they captured Altavilla before liberating Naples on 1 October 1943. US Parachute Rifle Platoon (US723)
US Parachute Rifle Platoon (US723) Normandy

The next stop for the 82nd and, the newcomers, the 101st Airborne divisions was Normandy. They seized objectives and held them until relieved by the advancing beach landing forces.
   
This would be the first operation where both divisions were used en mass. There objectives were to seize and hold vital causeways, road junctions and river bridges and thereby preventing German reinforcements from rushing to the invasion beaches and clearing the way inland for US forces landing on the beaches at Omaha and Utah.
In Flames of War

Parachute Riflemen are the best volunteers the US Army has on offer and are rated Fearless Veteran. Whether you use them as elite infantry in the ground role or as airborne shock power you will find they have incredible staying power, their Fearless Veteran rating  makes them hard to slow down.
US Parachute Rifle Platoon (US723)
US Parachute Rifle Platoon (US723) They are able to use the .30cal machine-gun in the mobile role and all their teams are Rifle/MG teams with a ROF of 2. In Normandy they were armed with Gammon Bombs giving them a Tank Assault 3.

For mid war see Afrika and for late war see D Minus 1.

(Prone .30cal Machine-gunners not included)

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Last Updated On Tuesday, February 26, 2019