Timeline
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March 10 1941
The Provisional Parachute Group -
July 1st 1941
Creation of the 502nd PIB -
July 10 1941
The Parachute School settles in Fort Benning -
August 11 1941
First overseas combat jump exercise -
August 21 1941
Creation of the 503rd PIB -
September 15 1941
Simulate war -
October 5 1941
Creation of the 504th PIB
February 23rd 1945
Los Banos raid
On 23 February 1945, 130 paratroopers from Company B of the 511th PIR took part in a jungle rescue operation with the help of local guerrillas to liberate a camp containing 2,147 civilian men, women and children from an agricultural school campus and allied servicemen interned by the Japanese near Los Banos in the Philippines.
