Littlecote House, Hungerford.

I stopped off at Littlecote House near Hungerford on my way home from work. It is now a country house hotel, but has had a really interesting past.

Littlecote during the Second World War: In September 1943 the US 101st Airborne Division requisitioned the house and it became home to regimental staff, regimental headquarters company and headquarters company of the 1st Battalion, 506th Parachute Parachute Infantry Regiment.

The house provided office space and sleeping quarters for 506th officers with the best rooms being allocated to Col. Robert F. Sink, Regimental Commander and Lt. Col. Charles H. Chase, his executive officer.

From airfields in this area, including Ramsbury just to the west of here, the Airborne Division took off on D-Day, 6th June 1944, as part of the invasion of Normandy.

Easy Company from this Regiment have become famous through the book and TV mini-series Band of Brothers.