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Easy Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles", is one of the best-known companies in the United States Army. Their experiences in World War II are the subject of the HBO miniseries ''Band of Brothers'' based on the book of the same name by historian Stephen Ambrose. In 2009, twenty of the last few remaining survivors from Easy Company recounted their stories in the oral-history book project ''We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories From the Band of Brothers''. ==History== The 506th PIR was an experimental airborne regiment created in 1942 at Camp Toccoa, Georgia. Easy Company missions were to involve being parachuted from C-47 transport airplanes over hostile territory. Major Richard Winters described the original organization of Easy Company as follows: "() company included three rifle platoons and a headquarters section. Each platoon contained three twelve-man rifle squads and a six-man mortar team squad. Easy also had one machine gun attached to each of its rifle squads, and a 60mm mortar in each mortar team."〔''Beyond Band of Brothers'', pages 16–17. ISBN 978-0-425-21375-9〕 Before attending paratrooper training, the unit had to perform the standard battle drills and excruciating amounts of physical training that comes with being in the parachute infantry. One of the more famous exercises in the television series was the regular running of Currahee, a large, steep hill. The phrase "3 miles up, 3 miles down" was derived from this run. Easy Company, while training at Toccoa, was under the command of Herbert Sobel, who was known for his extreme strictness. Also as part of their physical training, the members of Easy Company performed formation runs in three-four column running groups. This type of training was ahead of the rest of the army, which didn't adopt formation running until the 1960s. The purpose of this training was to push the soldiers to their limits, and to teach them how to work together as a team. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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