Kammala wannan jumla: An kafa PIR na 511 a Camp Toccoa, GA, a watan Janairun 1943 kuma a watan Maris aka tura shi zuwa Camp Mackall, NC kafin ya tafi Fort Benning, GA, bataliya ta bataliya don horar da tsalle. Bayan matsalolin da Allied airborne ke fuskanta a lokacin Operation Husky a watan Yulin 1943, daga 6 zuwa 10 ga watan Disamba, 511th PIR ya shiga cikin nasarar Knollwood Maneuver wanda ya tabbatar da makomar Amurka. Bayan jarrabawar karshe a sansanin Polk, LA, rundunar ta ci gaba da zuwa sansanin Stoneman, CA, kuma a watan Mayu 1944 ya shiga cikin Pacific a kan jirgin ruwa na SS "Sea Pike". An horar da shi a Oro-Dobodura a New Guinea har zuwa Nuwamba 1944, lokacin da aka tura shi zuwa Philippines don shiga cikin
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