2nd Airborne Battle Group 506th Infantry Regiment

Worn as a Pocket Patch from:
July 1942 - November 1945

The unit was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division.
A pair of dicce, showing a five and a six, ringed by a
black "O," and superimposed on a parachute represent the
unit's designation (506th Parachute Infantry Regiment).
It was on Currahee Mountain that the men of the 506th were
hardened sufficiently to enable the regiment to break the
world march record held by the Japanese army.
The 506th gained nationwide attention for this feat.

Campaigns:
World War II
(Normandy, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe).
Note:
Companies K, L, and M are entitled to campaign streamers for
World War I and World War II in units since re-designated.

Decorations:

Distinguished Unit Citation
(streamer embroidered Bastogne, Normandy);

cited in the Order of the Day,
Belgian army, for France-Belgium, Bastogne;

Belgian Fourragere 1940; French Croix de Guerre with Palm
(streamer embroidered Normandy);

Netherlands Orange Lanyard.

Note:
Company K
(then battery D, 463rd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion)
entitled to French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star
(streamer embroidered Muy En Province)