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Ridgway's Paratroopers: The American Airborne in World War II. The Dial Press. ISBN 1-55750-299-4. Groves, Bryan N. MG Matthew Ridgway as the 82d Airborne Division commander : a case study on the impact of vision and character in leadership. Institute of Land Warfare, Association of the United States Army, 2006. OCLC 74162981; Hastings, Max.
Shoulder sleeve insignia of the 82nd Airborne Division. This is a list of commanders of the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States Army. The 82nd Airborne Division is one of the oldest divisions in the U.S. Army, having been raised shortly after the American entry into World War I in April 1917 and seeing service in World War I and World War II and many subsequent conflicts. Major General ...
The famous 'Truscott Trot' was a marching pace of five miles per hour over the first mile, thereafter four miles per hour, much faster than the usual standard of 2.5 miles per hour. The 3rd Infantry Division was considered to be the best-trained, best-led division in the Seventh Army and Truscott himself was highly rated by Patton, who wrote in ...
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble (May 15, 1802 – January 2, 1888) was a United States Army officer, a civil engineer, a prominent railroad construction superintendent and executive, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He was born in Virginia, lived in Maryland for much of his adult life, and returned to Virginia in 1861 after Maryland ...
The fall of Manhay to the II SS Panzer Corps on Christmas Day sent shock waves throughout the Allied Command. From Manhay the Germans could continue north toward Liege or turn against the flank of the 3rd Armored and the 82nd Airborne. General Ridgeway was ordered to retake Manhay at all costs.
James Maurice Gavin (22 March 1907 – 23 February 1990), sometimes called "Jumpin' Jim" and "the jumping general", was a senior United States Army officer, with the rank of lieutenant general, who was the third Commanding General (CG) of the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II.
Shoulder sleeve insignia of the US 2nd Infantry Division. This is a list of commanders of the US 2nd Infantry Division of the United States Army. Division Commanders Name From To Comments BGen Charles A. Doyen 26 October 1917 November 1917 World War I (United States Marine Corps) MG Omar Bundy 8 November 1917 July 1918 World War I MG James G. Harbord 15 July 1918 August 1918 World War I (BGen ...
Exercise Mainbrace was part of a series of NATO exercise jointly commanded by Admiral McCormick and General Ridgeway during the Fall of 1952 involving 300,000 military personnel engaged in maneuvers from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean Sea. [6] [8] Two exercises were conducted by NATO's Allied Forces Southern Europe during the Fall of ...