Veterans · 21 July 2025

L'histoire et le destin d' André DREYER est l'une des plus surprenante de la seconde guerre. Ce résistant méconnu mais finalement reconnu de tous les chefs de la résistance du Var. André est né 30 novembre 1907 à Colmar, Haut-Rhin (68) de Joseph et Joséphine GAUGLER. Il suit ses études jusqu'à l'âge de 13 ans à l'école communale de Colmar, études qui à cette époque étaient en langue Allemande. En 1918, l'Alsace deviens Française et il sera envoyé au collège de Dampicourt en...

Veterans · 10 September 2024

Douglas DILLARD was born 14 September 1925, in Atlanta, Georgia. He joined the army when he was only 17 years old and volunter for parachute training and was attached to A company of the famous 551st parachute infantry batallion under command of colonel Wood JOERG. On august 15th 1944, just a month before hos 18th Doug was part of the Airborne oparation Dragoon, second D day and jumped in Southern France behind enemy line. He then took part to the liberation of many town, including the german...

Histoire · 03 December 2019

the 551st Parachute Infantry battalion was activated on 26 November 1942 at Fort Kobbe in the Panama Canal Zone. Its initial cadre came from Company C of the 501st Parachute Infantry Battalion, while the rest of that battalion was absorbed into the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment. Its first draft of new men was gathered in the Frying Pan Area of Fort Benning, Georgia, on 30 October 1942. Those personnel were trained as paratroopers through the Parachute School Replacement Pool in...