The 188th Glider Infantry Regiment was a regiment in the United States Army that was active during World War II. It was a part of the 11th Airborne Division during its entire existence. [1] The 188th Infantry Regiment was constituted on 12 November …

The 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) was assigned the task of destroying all Japanese formations in the division's operational area, which it began on 28 November when it relieved the 7th Infantry.

Along with the 511th Parachute Infantry and 187th Glider Infantry Regiments, the 188th formed the 11th Airborne Division, the only such division to serve in the Pacific Theater. The 188ths experience contradicted common sense and airborne warfares fundamental ideas.

2024年2月14日 · The rescue force at Los Baños could hear the cacophony of combat in the distance, which was the diversionary attack force from the 188th Glider Infantry Regiment cutting the Japanese 8th Division...

In July 1945 the 188th became a PIR and the newly arrived to the Philippines 541st PIR was broken up and absorbed into the 11th. The 503rd PRCT was an independent unit with organic artillery and engineers. It was originally the 503rd PIR, which was organized from two existing parachute infantry battalions at Ft Benning, Georgia, in early 1942.

2008年8月4日 · Did you know that a lot of the 11th Airborne guys (188th PIR) came over to the 17th Infantry Regiment and other 7th Infantry Division units in 1948 when the 7th ID was moved to Camp Schimmelpfennig in Sendai, Japan after duty in Korea (45-48) There's actually an article in the last Buffalo Bugle from one of our members who served with the 188th ...

To fill the void of 187th overseas movement, the famous 188th Glider Infantry Regt. of the 11th Abn., in the Pacific during World War II, had been restored to the division in august 1950. The 188th had distinguished itself in World War II as the only unit to make a glider attack in the Pacific theater in Operation Gypsy (Aparri) on Luzon in 1945.

2023年8月25日 · It's marked for the 188th PIR and was originally 503rd airborne infantry regiment (I can see the circles under the paint) it has a fallow me stripe and is named. Probably the most interesting helmet I've found in a year.

2019年9月17日 · By nightfall, the 187th and 188th had cleared most of the field of enemy combatants. The 11th was selected by General Mac Arthur to lead the Allied Forces in occupying Japan. On 30 August 1945, the 188th were the first to land on Japanese soil with 1096 men.

The positions of 11th Airborne units, such as the 187th Glider Infantry Regiment, the 188th Glider Infantry Regiment, and the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, are included. A blue line drawn from Kawasaki to Hachioji is marked "Phase Line 2."