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...Eighty-Second. In 1940, U.S. airborne divisions were only a fanatical idea. Two years later, the promising 82nd Infantry Division (Sergeant Alvin York's outfit in World War I) was turned into an airborne division, with Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway in command. At the same time the 101st Airborne was newly activated under Major General William Carey Lee, the man who fathered the radical doctrine. The two outfits began intensive training...
...82nd saw its first action in Sicily. The beginning was tragic. Recognition signals failed and antiaircraft gunners, both enemy and friendly, shot down more than a score of the 82nd's transport planes. All but one battalion landed in the wrong spot; skeptics wanted to write finis to the whole idea. But the 82nd persisted. It showed what it could do when it moved 250 miles in eight hours to join the attack on Salerno. When U.S. troops marched into Naples three weeks later, the cocky 82nd...
...Then the 82nd went to England, to prepare for the biggest test of all. With the 101st and the British 6th, its men spearheaded the invasion of France. Casualties were heavy. Many a rifleman of the 82nd died in the ditches and orchards of Normandy. But the outfit secured its area, broke through, crossed the Douve and led the drive which sealed off Cherbourg, later taken by the 79th ("Lorraine"), the 4th ("Ivy") and the gth-all infantry divisions...
...trump card, creating a hero legend around the Führer 's death, while Hitler himself goes underground." To fasten the hoax on posterity, Reichsbildberichterstatter (Photo graphic Reporter for the Reich) Heinrich Hoffmann would "be on hand to film Hitler's last moment on the battlefield."* -Whose 82nd birthday was celebrated this week at a San Simeon party attended by sons and satellites (Louella Parsons...
...that historic morning three airborne divisions - the 82nd, 101st and British 6th - spearheaded the great invasion, took their objectives, helped secure the all-important beachhead. That ended the arguments. Eisenhower went ahead and organized the First Allied Airborne Army, naming Ridgway to head the XVIII Corps...