82nd Airborne Division

The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division of the United States Army during World War I. During World War II, the division was specialized in parachute assault operations into denied areas with a U.S. Department of Defense requirement to "respond to crisis contingencies anywhere in the world within 18 hours". Based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the 82nd Airborne Division is part of the XVIII Airborne Corps. The 82nd Airborne Division is the U.S. Army's most strategically mobile division. The 82nd along with the 101st Airborne Division jumped behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day.
In 1946, the division and the 101st took part in a OSA mission to attack Deathshead's Compound, only the two divisions were massacred and routed during the assault on Deathshead's Compound. After the war, the survivors were presumably murdered or were prisoners by the SS under the Kommandobefehl (Commando Order).
== Notable members ==
* Corporal Lewis Ford
== Behind the scenes ==
The 82nd Airborne division was constituted, originally as the 82nd Division, in the National Army on August 5, 1917, shortly after the American entry into the First World War. It was organized on August 25, 1917, at Camp Gordon, Georgia, and later served with distinction on the Western Front in the final months of World War I. Since its initial members came from all 48 states, the division acquired the nickname All-American, which is the basis for its "AA" on the shoulder patch. The division later served in World War II where, in August 1942, it was reconstituted as the first airborne division of the United States Army and fought in numerous campaigns during the war. Its troopers deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, under the command of Major General Ridgway to take part in the campaign to invade Sicily. The division's first two combat operations were parachute assaults into Sicily on July 9th and Salerno on September 13, 1943. The initial assault on Sicily, by the 505th Parachute Regimental Combat Team, under Colonel Gavin, was the first regimental-sized combat parachute assault conducted by the United States Army. The first glider assault did not occur until Operation Neptune as part of the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944. 
== External link ==
82nd Airborne division on Wikipedia
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