555th Parachute Infantry Battalion- Triple Nickles WWII Film

[poshportia62]

How do you keep a people down? You 'never' let them 'know' their history.

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[MrTooky]

I was at fraternity convention two weeks ago (July 23rd-25th) in Las Vegas and was sitting next to one of our members who was a Triple Nickle. His name was Mr; Corbett and he told some very interetsting stories about the 555 th, during the 20 minute ride. He lives in Orlando and I will be visiting him to get more of his story for our Omega Psi Phi Museum in Atlanta.

[mhoussel]

As a former Airborne Instructor at the Airborne School from 1998-2000, I always stood at the 555th's picture down at McCarthy Hall with absolute admiration and pride. I cried tears of pride when I first saw their portrait when I was a trainee at the school back in 1992. They are true heroes and may God bless them all! What a sight to behold! A whole battalion of brothers starched down, clean shaven with spit shine jump boots and everybody had their silver wings from the CO to the lowest PVT!

[stephaniewalk84]

My dad was also a Triple Nickle, and his name was Forrest A. Walker. If anyone would like to connect with his daughter, I would enjoy any conversation about that time period. Unfortunately, my father past away in 1973, my mother Mayme N. Walker in 2005. I would be an honor to hear from anyone who remembers them.

[begie2ana]

My father is a Triple Nickle. He's 84 and when I showed him this footage, it brought back a lot of memories for him. He still has some of his original pictures that wre taken during that time.

[SoundsOfHarmony]

Your dad probably knows my father. Mine is 88 and he was one of the original 16, Clarence Beavers.

[azeeze]

Its a shame they never got to see combat overseas, thats what they wanted. Like in the movie "Glory" they wanted to fight to prove they were men. Amazing Footage and Very Intresting. Units like this are forgotten.

God Bless

-Nick

[tmallow2004]

Among the first smoke jumpers. Something else also that I was proud to see was the 82nd ABN Div Cmdr insisting they march along side the division in the NY parade. Outstanding soldiers, they are!

[TommyWebb]

dEverytime I see this ... it's like the first time ... you go XYZ ... I found some footage ... mind if I take a shot at it ?

[CitizenXYZ]

That's great. The more footage of the 555th we can get on Youtube and other online sources, the more folks can learn about these historic pioneers of the Airborne world. By all means put up as much footage as you can find from any legitimate source. Do the 555th vets a favor and try to add a link in your post to their web site too. It helps them get more hits on their official web page. Cheers.

[nolifemerc]

was the film developed?

[CitizenXYZ]

Greetings,

The feature film about the Triple Nickles has not yet been fully developed due to lack of production funding (a major film production company/studio will need to become attached for this project to happen.) An exclusive option to make a film of their story was granted by the TN Association; and a basic treatment (film script synopsis) was written, and that's as far as it has come so far.

Cheers.

[TommyWebb]

Hey there .. thank you ... my uncle was part of the 555th ...

[msbradley95]

Great footage of the triple nickles