hey, I just recently looked into my family records and found out tht my great grandfather served in World War Two. I looked through all the documents, and found quite a few of his medals and possesions. we went to his house where he had lived at the time, and found a whole jewelry box full of medals, and we found a patch tht said 11th Airborne Division. Now, I know that they were discontinued after WWII, and that they served in the Phillipine Islands. Thats about it. He never really talked about it while he was alive, so I want to kno more about it, if anyone could help, i would greatly appreciate it.

His Patch:

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Here are several pages.

The 11th Airborne Division During WW II - Overview

Combat Chronicle- 11th Airborne Division

BLACKFIVE: Angels At Dawn! - The Los Banos Airborne Raid 60th Anniversary

11th Airborne Division (Air Assault) - Unit Pages

Lineage of the 503d Family - 503

Contact some of the associations connected to the 11th Airborne, they might can hook you up with some of the men or help you better than we could.

US Army History, 11th Airborne Division

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Best Regards,
JW

ty m8! itll help alot in my research.

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OH also a weird factoid about the 11th ABN DIV. Rod Serling pf THE TWILIGHT ZONE fame served in that unit... just a weird FYI

You want to ask the bacepow chapter
They are civilian exPOWs who keep track of the 11th PIR, the 37th Inf Div, 44th Tank BN, 1st Cav Div, 8th Cav Reg, etc.
BACEPOW Chapter
Angus Lorenzen
15 Diamonte Ln
Rancho Palos Verdes CA 90275
3310-519-86486

Lou Gopal will know people
connect through his web site

Sue

My grandfather, Stanley G. Waldron was in the 11th Airborne. He passed away March 15th, 2009. Being in the US Navy, I had the honor and privelage of helping with his funeral (military honors). He was in "G" Company in the 187th Glider Infantry Division, 11th Airborne in 1943-1946.

He served in New Guinnea, and in the Southern Phillipines. Did 2 jumps and on the second he was injured. He was then ordered to driver duty. He drove trucks with supplies to the front lines, as well as the Commanding Officer's jeep that went to the front lines as well. He recieved a Purple Heart and 2 Bronze Stars.

I have just recently been researching the 187th GID, 11th Airborne due to my grandfather's passing.

Please e-mail me if you have any connecion with this, or for any other reason.

buckmurray1@yahoo.com

Buck Murray

My uncle served with the same outfit. To my amazment I opened the first link Slipdidget listed. (11th Airbourne overview) and it has a picture of the 187th 2nd Platoon, 1st Battalion. My uncle is in the second row, going left to right he is second to the end.

He passed away too early, in his mid 50's. He was wounded in the Phillipines, suffered a head wound from shrapnel. This happened when he was taking cover in a bomb crater with 4 others and they took a direct hit from Jap artillery. He was the only survivor.

He didn't talk about the war much except for one special Liuetenant.
While pinned down from blistering machine gun fire, my uncle said "I would just love a cold drink of water". This SOB Liuetenant screamed at him for the longest time ! He couldn't believe a Sarge could be thinking about a cold drink of water at that time. To the day he died, he wanted to kick that Lt's ass.

Best Regards,

My father, Hudson Phillips, was the division chaplain during ww2. I was 9 years old when I visited him in training at Camp Mackall, and watched a division jump. I probably saw your great grandfather! I attended a reunion in 1971 at Hot Springs AK and met the commanding general, Joe Swing, who was Ike's roommate at West Point. My dad died in 1995 at 94. If there had been an invasion of Japan, the 11th AB was slated to lead it. They are most remembered for the brilliant Los Banos prison camp liberation, carried out by the 511th PIR and Filipino Scouts.

Tony, et al,

While at the NARA last month, I copied the six page narrative History
of the Los Banos Operation. I also copied the History of Operation
Mike VI, the assault on the Genko Line, 31 January - 5 February 1945.

I also found GO 69, issued by HQ, Eighth Army, which contains
Unit Citations for the 511th PIR and the 11th Airborne Division.

I just scanned these as pdfs today. They are all legal size documents, by the way.

If you want copies, let me know.


Dave