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The United States Army Airborne & Special Operations Museum (ASOM) is part of the U.S. Army Museum Enterprise dedicated to preserving and teaching a public history of the Special Operations and Airborne community, as well as broader United States military history. Located on Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg), but geographically separate from ...
Pope Field was on Fort Bragg, home of the 82nd Airborne Division and later 11th Airborne Division. Grenada Field , Mississippi was located near Camp Claiborne, Louisiana , home of the 101st Airborne Division ; Laurinburg-Maxton Army Air Base , North Carolina, was frequently the location of joint exercises between troop carrier units and Army ...
Inactivated 25 May 1964 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and relieved from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division; Redesignated 3 July 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Battalion, 320th Artillery, and assigned to the 82d Airborne Division (organic elements concurrently constituted) Battalion activated 15 July 1968 at Fort Bragg ...
In 1940, the War Department approved the formation of a test platoon of Airborne Infantry under the direction and control of the Army's Infantry Board. A test platoon of volunteers was organized from Fort Benning's 29th Infantry Regiment, and the 2nd Infantry Division was directed to conduct tests to develop reference data and operational procedures for air-transported troops.
The 2-503d was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky as part of the 3d Bde along with the 1-503d and 3-187th. From December 1986 to September 1990, the 2-503rd was assigned to Camp Hovey, Korea, along with the 1-503rd, as a Light Infantry battalion.
A few days into the spring of 1994, paratroopers waited for an airborne training operation on the tarmac at then-Pope Air Force Base. It was March 23, and the skies above the airfield of then-Fort ...
The 503rd Infantry Regiment, formerly the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (503rd PIR) and the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment (503rd AIR), is an airborne infantry regiment of the United States Army. The regiment served as an independent regiment in the Pacific War during World War II; at Fort Campbell, Kentucky; in Okinawa, Japan; and in ...
“Now I feel like joining the US military,” Francis Odey said. “I’m trying not to cry,” Annie Baum wrote. The roots of the 82nd Airborne Division All-American Band and Chorus date to 1942 .