Word: 82nd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's continuing research into the best way of fighting an Arctic war (others: Task Forces Frigid, Frost, Williwaw in Alaska, Wisconsin and the Aleutians). The jump was made by 500 men of the 505th Airborne Battalion Combat Team, a unit of the Army's famed 82nd Airborne Division...
...sunny September Sunday, a year later, U.S. paratroopers tumbled from transports above Nijmegen. In three days, aided by the Dutch student underground, the 82nd Airborne Division captured intact Nijmegen Bridge-"Gateway to The Netherlands." In the fighting, most of the university was reduced to rubble; the retreating Germans deliberately fired the main building and shelled the library for 68 hours. When the 82nd went home in victory, wearing the orange lanyard of the Military Order of William, 800 paratroopers stayed behind, buried in Dutch soil...
...week the dead G.I.s got a living memorial. Ex-U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Gibson and a platoon of big names (Herbert Hoover, Jim Farley, General Omar Bradley, Philip Murray, Louella Parsons) began raising $2,000,000 to help rebuild the University of Nijmegen in honor of the 82nd...
General Evangeline Booth, the Salvation Army's retired international commander, finally recovering from a long siege of flu, had four friends in to dinner on her 82nd birthday...
...South is still paying for the Civil War. In the 82nd year after Appomattox, twelve southern states shelled out more than $3,000,000 in pensions for Confederate veterans, their dependents and the Negro servants who followed them into service. The veterans themselves now numbered fewer than 100 (highest number in one state: 14 in Mississippi). But Confederate soldiers are still survived by 5,000 widows. Notable example: 79-year-old Helen Longstreet, widow of famed General James Longstreet...