Talk:E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States)

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Bradford C. Freeman was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 24 July 2022 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States). The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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On Sept. 18, 2020, an anonymous editor added this line to the "Destruction of Stick 66" section: "Another near miss was experienced by medic Ed Pepping who was swapped out from the doomed plane with another medic, Ernie Oats at the last minute" with the citation "We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories From the Band of Brothers (2009), Chapter 25 Thoughts on Heroism, Ed Pepping". This seems to indicate that Oats took Pepping's place on the plane and was consequently killed, but it's not fully clear, so I've removed the text here until someone (perhaps with access to the cited book?) can render it clearly. PRRfan (talk) 03:21, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Since Pepping was not notable, I'm of the opinion that he doesn't need to be referenced.--Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 14:45, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In Stick 66, third phrase: "The pilot did a 180-degree turn and turned the landing lights coming on as the plane lost altitude" it could just be a remnant of previous editing, the word "coming" is unnecessary. Thank you all for a great page Netweezurd (talk) 21:15, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The "Notable Personnel" section includes the following:

• Major General Maxwell D. Taylor (101st Airborne Division CO) (26 August 1901 – 19 April 1987)
• Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe (101st Airborne Division Artillery Officer, later acting 101st Airborne Division CO) (2 July 1898 – 11 August 1975)
• Colonel Robert Frederick Sink (506th Regiment CO) (3 April 1905 – 13 December 1965)

Although E Company was a component of their respective commands, none of these individuals were actually attached to the company per se. Should they be included here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.14.81.84 (talk) 17:43, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any problem with deleting the entire Senior officers section; the only person included who was in the company is Winters and he's mentioned in the next section.--Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 20:19, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and deleted that section. Agree it serves no real purpose here. Intothatdarkness 16:45, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The article does not explain the nickname "Easy Company". Tad Lincoln (talk) 20:46, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. Regiments in those days consisted of nine lettered companies; the old phonetic alphabet ran able, baker, charlie, dog, easy and so on.--Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 00:45, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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