http://www.madelmanyfigurasdeaccion.com/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=8090 ----------------------------------- Varon Cook Vie 08 Abr, 2016 12:08 Sobre La 101 Y La 82 Aereotrasportadas... ----------------------------------- Hola !!! A ver si alguien sabe decirme..... ¿ Hubo paracaidistas negros en la 101 o la 82 Aereotrasportadas ? Un cordial y amistoso saludote: ----------------------------------- ampa Vie 08 Abr, 2016 14:04 Re: Sobre La 101 Y La 82 Aereotrasportadas... ----------------------------------- Creo que no. En aquellos tiempos había segregación y los negros formaban sus propias unidades. Busca la compañía paracaidista 555. [img]http://www.ww2-airborne.us/18corps/18images/555.jpg[/img] [img]http://i58.tinypic.com/358nx2b.jpg[/img] ----------------------------------- Varon Cook Vie 08 Abr, 2016 19:18 Re: Sobre La 101 Y La 82 Aereotrasportadas... ----------------------------------- Hola Antonio !!! Muchas gracias, una muy interesante información de la que he tomado buena nota, lastima que no participaran en la WWII...de ahí hemos de sacar algo :yes: :good: :yes: :good: :whistling: :whistling: Un cordial y amistoso saludote: ----------------------------------- marc Dom 10 Abr, 2016 08:09 Re: Sobre La 101 Y La 82 Aereotrasportadas... ----------------------------------- Ok Antonio, muy buena información. :good: ----------------------------------- naveargos Dom 10 Abr, 2016 08:17 Re: Sobre La 101 Y La 82 Aereotrasportadas... ----------------------------------- Pero la 555 no estuvo en combate. Ni siquiera salió de lo USA. Los usaron para apagar incendios provocados por bombas estáticas japonesas en zonas boscosas... ----------------------------------- Varon Cook Dom 10 Abr, 2016 19:00 Re: Sobre La 101 Y La 82 Aereotrasportadas... ----------------------------------- [quote user="naveargos" post="128467"]Pero la 555 no estuvo en combate. Ni siquiera salió de lo USA. Los usaron para apagar incendios provocados por bombas estáticas japonesas en zonas boscosas...[/quote] Hola !!! Si, parece ser que no le dejaron participar y quedó destinada a EEUU, los " all Black "....... Tengo ya echa una medio prueba, aunque al final acabará con un componente de la 82 o la 101...... Un cordial y amistoso saludote: ----------------------------------- padre Mar 12 Abr, 2016 16:04 Re: Sobre La 101 Y La 82 Aereotrasportadas... ----------------------------------- En general,parece que no les daban armas...hay fotos de morenos descargando material y creo recordar que era en Normandia. Si que participaron el combate en una escuadrilla de Mustang ,con muy buenos resultados ,en las escoltas de bombardeo de alemania. saludos. ----------------------------------- Varon Cook Mar 12 Abr, 2016 18:59 Re: Sobre La 101 Y La 82 Aereotrasportadas... ----------------------------------- Hola !!! Aquí pone que no sirvieron en el extranjero, se barajó la posibilidad de mandarlos a Europa, pero al final pasó la crisis y durante la WWII, fueron destinados en territorio a otros servicios.... Wordl War : Members of the battalion are briefed before takeoff from Fort Dix in 1947 The battalion did not serve overseas during World War II, primarily because it never reached full strength for an Airborne Infantry Battalion. In reaction to the German counterattack that began the Battle of Bulge, the Airborne Command considered reorganizing the 555th PIB as a single reinforced Airborne Rifle Company, and sending it to Europe to reinforce the battered Airborne units already there. However, before this could happen the crisis had passed, and the 555th PIB was instead alerted for deployment to the West Coast. The men of the 555th PIB hoped that they would get into the war against the Japanese, but that was not their new mission. According to Sergeant Walter Morris "It was a secret mission called Operation Firefly. We thought we were going overseas to [Gen. Douglas] MacArthur's theater." It wasn't until they arrived in Oregon, in May 1945, that they learned they'd be fighting the Japanese on the fire line in the Western United States.[1] [2] During the winter of 1944–45, the Japanese sent 9000 fire balloons toward the West Coast of North America. It was believed 1000 succeeded in reaching the United States. 312 balloon bombs have been found.[3] After three days, each balloon dropped an incendiary bomb.[4] The balloon bombs employed a ballast system designed to maintain an average altitude of 30,000 feet. Incendiary bombs would be dropped one at a time (four 11 pounders) and a single high-explosive bomb (33 pounds) would be dropped followed by a self-destruct device.[3]In order to conceal the efficacy of these attacks, the missions of the 555th PIB was kept clandestine in nature. By January 1945, however, both Time and Newsweek had reported that the mission had been revealed in May of that year.[5] While the 555th PIB fought twenty-eight forest fires during the 1945 season, none of these were attributed to the balloon incendiaries during the period Firefly was activated, nor were any fires started by the balloon bomb program at all.[6] Stationed at Pendleton Field, Oregon (formerly the base of the pilots and aircraft selected for the Doolittle raid on Japan), with a detachment in Chico, California, unit members courageously participated in dangerous fire-fighting missions throughout the Pacific Northwest during the summer and fall of 1945. The 555th worked on twenty-eight fires during the 1945 season. Of these, fifteen fires were "jumped" or parachuted to.[6] While some United States Forest Service reports refer to some employees as smokejumpers, the 555th were reported as paratroopers on all fire reports.[6] The only fatality in the unit died while jumping on 6 August 1945. The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion was nicknamed the "Triple Nickles" because of its numerical designation and the selection of 17 of the original 20-member "colored test platoon" from the 92nd Infantry (Buffalo) Division. Hence, the origin of the term Buffalo Nickles; the spelling derives from old English. Three buffalo nickels joined in a triangle or pyramid is the identifying symbol.[7] Soon after returning to Camp Mackall in October 1945, the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion was transferred to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, its home for the next two years. During this period the unit was attached to the elite 82d Airborne Division. When the battalion was inactivated on 15 December 1947, its men were all transferred into the 3d Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division, which had been reduced to cadre strength to prepare for their arrival. Soon afterward, individual black paratroopers were transferred to units throughout the 82nd Airborne Division, making it the first integrated division in the US Army. Un cordial y amistoso saludote: ----------------------------------- ampa Mar 12 Abr, 2016 19:03 Re: Sobre La 101 Y La 82 Aereotrasportadas... ----------------------------------- Aunque en la mayoría de los casos la minoría de color realizaba trabajos de baja cualificación como carga y descarga o como grumetes o ayudantes de cocina en la marinas, si hubo unidades que participaron en combate como la 92ª División de Infantería, los "Soldados Búfalo que combatió en Italia O los Aviadores de Tuskegee a los que se refiere Padre. Por cierto hicieron una película muy buena de este tema ----------------------------------- OBS Mar 12 Abr, 2016 21:57 Re: Sobre La 101 Y La 82 Aereotrasportadas... ----------------------------------- ...pero los aviadores de Tuskegee eran eso aviadores... [IMG]http://i64.tinypic.com/66hhu9.jpg[/IMG] y los otros son de la 92ª División de Infantería... Un saludo Lorenzo ----------------------------------- Varon Cook Mie 13 Abr, 2016 19:16 Re: Sobre La 101 Y La 82 Aereotrasportadas... ----------------------------------- [quote user="ampa" post="128506"]Aunque en la mayoría de los casos la minoría de color realizaba trabajos de baja cualificación como carga y descarga o como grumetes o ayudantes de cocina en la marinas, si hubo unidades que participaron en combate como la 92ª División de Infantería, los "Soldados Búfalo que combatió en Italia O los Aviadores de Tuskegee a los que se refiere Padre. Por cierto hicieron una película muy buena de este tema[/quote] Hola Antonio !!! Si, que hubo divisiones afroamericanas que participaron durante el conflicto de la WWII, si, estamos de acuerdo, yo me referia a paracaidistas o tropas aereotrasportadas, es por un custom que tengo en fabrica, pero me parece que va a acabar siendo un miembro de la 11th Airborne o similar, ya especificaremos...... una muestra en proyecto: [IMG]http://i65.tinypic.com/2pyup9i.jpg[/IMG] Siento lo del " tumbado "de la foto, pero ando con el portátil y se me amotina, el de mesa no me va. Sorry. ( si alguien pudiera ponerla en vertical, Please. Gracias. Un cordial y amistoso saludote: ----------------------------------- Varon Cook Mie 13 Abr, 2016 19:20 Re: Sobre La 101 Y La 82 Aereotrasportadas... ----------------------------------- [quote user="OBS" post="128512"]...pero los aviadores de Tuskegee eran eso aviadores... [IMG]http://i64.tinypic.com/66hhu9.jpg[/IMG] y los otros son de la 92ª División de Infantería... Un saludo Lorenzo[/quote] Hola !!! HHHuuummmm, un interesante custom !!!! Un cordial y amistoso saludote: