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At 1:10 a.m., 4,700 paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, under the command of Lieutenant General John L. Throckmorton, arrived in Detroit [51] and began working in the streets, coordinating refuse removal, tracing persons who had disappeared in the confusion, and carrying out routine military functions, such as the ...
D-Day casualties for the airborne divisions were calculated in August 1944 as 1,240 for the 101st Airborne Division and 1,259 for the 82nd Airborne. Of those, the 101st suffered 182 killed, 557 wounded, and 501 missing. For the 82nd, the total was 156 killed, 347 wounded, and 756 missing. [16]
The 101st soldiers deploying to Mihail Kogălniceanu in June did not represent additional U.S. forces in Europe, but are taking the place of soldiers assigned to 82nd Airborne Division Headquarters and the 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division. In all, approximately 4700 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division are ...
The 82nd Airborne Division has more than 19,000 paratroopers, with three brigade combat teams, a sustainment brigade and a combat aviation brigade. ... first serving under the 101st Airborne ...
The first of 15,500 paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st U.S. Airborne are dropped near Carentan. They battle German forces and clear exits for U.S. infantry landing on Utah Beach.
The IRF's 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division was deployed to Afghanistan during Operation Allies Refuge in August 2021. [4] Elements of the 82nd Airborne, which makes up the core of the IRF, were mobilized and deployed to eastern Europe in support of NATO during the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis. [5]
In addition, the 82nd Airborne has been called "Alcoholics Anonymous" or "Almost Airborne" in reference to the "AA" on its shoulder patch by members of other divisions. 101st Airborne Division – "The Screaming Eagles"; after their shoulder insignia, a bald eagle's head on a black shield.
U.S. Airborne in Cotentin Peninsula "The Airborne Assault" - Utah to Cherbourg Archived 2009-09-16 at the Wayback Machine, United States Army Center of Military History. Zaloga, Steven J. D-Day 1944 (2): Utah Beach & the US Airborne Landings (2004). Osprey Publishing.