Last update: 21 July 2009

23 July 2009: Price per book added. See "The book" page.

21 July 2009: News about the third edition added. See "The book" page for more information.

20 March 2008: General update of several pages.

27 November 2007: The second edition "Brothers in Arms" has been sold out!

9 September 2007: Homepage updated and link to my 504th PIR website added to the "Links" page.

4 March 2007: Page order has been changed. Letterhead of A Company as of 1945 added. "Updates" section has been changed.

29 January 2007: story about the photo of the 3rd Platoon members updated. Keith Johnson, Fred Chalfant and Hofmeister removed from the missing troopers paragraph. Wallace Jones removed from the Casualtylist (was in HQ/2).

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This website is a tribute to the veterans of A Company 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, who fought on Sicily, at Salerno and Cassino in 1943, at Anzio for 63 days from 22 January 1944 - April 1944. They participated in the Operation Market Garden, crossed the Waal River, captured Fort Hof van Holland and were shelled in Den Heuvel woods [Devil's Hill] east of Nijmegen in the Fall of 1944.

When the Germans launched their counter strike through the Belgian Ardennes, the men of A Company were again sent to the frontlines.  More fighting followed in the Hurtgen Forest. On April 6, 1945 A Company made a company strength patrol across the Rhine River at Hitdorf, Germany, and created a bridgehead. Then the Germans launched a counterattack....

Frank van Lunteren

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After I had brought A Company veterans Leonhard Keck and David Haushalter in contact with each other after 61 years last year I thought I could never find the men on the left side of the photo below. Until a got a copy of a list of former A Company POWS with their addresses as of 1945. With that document I managed to find Charles W. Hofmeister, who is standing on the left. The man second on the left is still unknown. If you know who he is, please contact me at tuckerstroopers@live.nl  

The photo was made in May 1945 in Nice (France) and signed in August 2007.

Left to right: PFC Charles W. Hofmeister, unknown, unknown Red Cross girl, SGT Leonhard Keck and PFC David L. Haushalter.