Easy Company's trials, which included D-Day action and bursting into Hitler's home, were the subject of a 10-part HBO miniseries produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. He saw the enemy soldier stand and fire the RPG that changed his life forever. On the morning of 18 December 1944 the unit was hastily loaded onto trucks and transported to the vicinity of Bastogne to stem a major German attack on this critical city. Company B (Outlaw), was posted 7 kilometers to the east of the Corregidor FOB at OP Trotter, with a separate mission of protecting the most vulnerable part of the MSR (main supply route) leading into Ramadi, and the occupation of "OP Graveyard," an isolated and abandoned cemetery to the south of the MSR. The 1st Battalion continued the mission to man Guard Posts Ouellette and Collier, conduct combat and recon patrols, man the southern entrance to the Korean Demilitarized Zone and maintain the bridge platoon that guarded Freedom Bridge. The regiment served with the 101st Airborne Division in World War II. The 506th Infantry Regiment, originally designated the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (506th PIR) during World War II, is an airborne light infantry regiment of the United States Army. Civil Affairs - this report was an attachment to an Operational Report. Their training continued in England until 5 June, 1944 when the 506th suited up for a different kind of parachute jump. 101 airborne 1968 VIETNAM yearbook; submitted 144 - beginning of E Company individual photos Situation Report - these pages were taken from the 3rd Brigade Daily Journals. checkframed("../index.htm"); [citation needed] The entire Battlegroup deployed to Oxford. Here they would serve for 4 years, earn 12 more battle streamers, and be awarded a third Presidential Unit Citation for action at Dong Ap Bia Mountain (Hamburger Hill) in the Ashau Valley. As the battle shifted to Hill 937, Conmey moved the 1/506th to the southern side of the hill and Honeycutt airlifted Bravo Company to the area, and the rest of the battalion made their way by foot and met up with the 1/506th and Bravo on the 19th of May. Phillips (D Co, 1st BN, 1970), We Shall He was there to call in air strikes, artillery, Medevacs and resupply. Co, 1st BN, 1970), Fire Support Base Ripcord, July 1970: 3-minutes, Facts about FSB Ripcord: '