Ed Shames 101st Airborne 3rd Battalion 506 PIR E Company

101st Airborne E Company - Band of Brother's
Col. Ed Shames addresses Students of Altoona High School,
Altoona, Pennsylvania (Manny Vider)

Shames read about and applied for duty with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. In August 1942, Shames was called to active duty. He was sent to Toccoa, Georgia for training, starting as a private in Item Company, 3rd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment.[1]

In England, Shames was promoted to Operations Sergeant.[2] Prior to the paratroopers making their jump on D-Day, he built the sand tables the airborne unit used in planning the airdrop into Normandy.

Shames made his first combat jump into Normandy on D-Day as part of Operation Overlord. On 13 June 1944, he received a battlefield commission to second lieutenant, although the formal commission was completed in England. Shame's, was the first NCO in the Third Battalion to receive such a commission in Normandy. He was transferred to Easy Company and took charge of its third platoon.

Shames fought with Easy Company in Operation Market Garden and volunteered for Operation Pegasus led by Frederick Heyliger.[5] He was wounded once in his left leg during the campaigns.[3] He then fought with the rest of E Company in the Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne. In Foy, Shames and Paul Rogers knocked out a German tank with a bazooka.[6] In Germany, he saw some of the concentration camps in which the Germans imprisoned Europe's Jews and was deeply affected, because he is Jewish

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Further credits below:
Thank you to Ian Gardner, Airborne - The Story of Ed Shames, No Victory In Valhalla - Ian Gardner.... Tonight We Die As Men - Ian Gardner, Roger Day.... Deliver Us From Darkness - Ian Gardner, Mario Dicarlo

Special thank you to Miss Ida Shames, The love of Col. Shames life.

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