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...ground troops in Swarmer will be the 82nd Airborne Division (now at 75% strength), the 11th Airborne Division (down to two regiments), and their headquarters, supply and engineer troops. Opposing them will be one regimental combat team of the partially ready 3rd Infantry Division and a tank battalion...
...Army has only one full-strength division, the 82nd Airborne...
...Hill this week with politics on its mind and blood in its eye. At stake this year was more than the unfinished business on the Fair Deal agenda. With 36 Senators and the entire 435-member House facing the voters again next November, the prize was control of the 82nd Congress and a long head start toward the White House...
...first time, that he might conceivably be getting along in years: "I was reading in the paper the other day about the Sand birthday of Pudge Heffelfinger [Yale's all-America football star of 1889-91] . . . When the newspapers start printing news of Pudge Heffelfinger's 82nd birthday, I must be growing...
Gleam of Brass. He mounted an unshaded wooden reviewing stand and 20,000 men, led by the famed 82nd Airborne Division's band, poured past in his honor. They marched in ranks of twelve, brass and helmet liners gleaming, brand new company guidons bright in the hot sunlight. Behind them rumbled their tanks, guns and trucks...