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The ceremony, conducted amid the 82nd Airborne Division ... Holland. From there, McChrystal was put in touch with Dutch army Sgt. Maj. Thulai Van Maanan, who works to connect World War II ...
Officials said the trip to the Netherlands was ... made by the division in World War II. More than 20 members of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, traveled to the Netherlands ...
23, signaled the beginning of a tactical exercise aimed at enhancing the 82nd Airborne Division's interoperability with the 11th Airmobile Brigade of the Royal Netherlands army. More than 100 ...
Eatman was one of fewer than 2,800 paratroopers to have made all four World War II combat jumps with the 82nd Airborne Division — in Sicily, Salerno, Normandy and Holland. Fewer than 16 now ...
Staff Sgt. William 'Bill' Owens fought for two days during World War II. Eighty-one years after the fight, his Silver Star ...
Gen. James M. Gavin, 82nd Airborne Division commander during WWII. Gavin said she loves watching the division paratroopers in Normandy participating in the D-Day commemoration. "My dad absolutely ...
The 82nd Airborne Division's identity and ... 82nd troops are still in both those countries now. After World War II, it became the first Army division to be permanently integrated, and it has ...
NIJMEGEN, Netherlands — American soldiers paid tribute this week to the 48 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division who died crossing the Waal River during Operation Market Garden in 1944.
the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart for his actions during World War II. Tim Morales represents Staff Sgt. William “Bill” Owens, as Owens was named to the 82nd Airborne Division's Hall of ...