Word: 82nd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rocks in the Stream. The German drive had already been slowed down by the heroic stand of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne (see below), which confined Rundstedt's columns to secondary roads north and south of the town. The 82nd Airborne had put up a fierce defense around Stavelot, the 7th Armored between Saint-Vith and Vielsalm, the 1st Infantry at the north shoulder of the salient below Monschau, and the 4th Infantry at the south shoulder, around Echternach. The two infantry outfits had prevented Rundstedt from widening the salient's base. They were pegs that...
Ziggy is a Pole who has fought for two years in the Polish Army, for two years in the German. He is also probably the only prisoner taken in Normandy who ended up as a privileged guest. When paratroopers of the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division captured Ziggy, their close-cropped heads were beginning to grow shaggy after three weeks in the front line. Almost the only technicians who had not jumped with the paratroopers were barbers: that was where Ziggy, who had been a barber back in Warsaw, came in. He borrowed a pair of shears and went to work...
...82nd Airborne: Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, 49, West Pointer, first U.S. commander to lead an airborne division into action (in Sicily); he jumped with his outfit into Normandy (he prefers parachuting to glider landing...
They got their chance; the 82nd was too spent to exploit its breakthrough. So while one regiment of the 9th pushed west from Néhou, through St.-Jacques, another regiment passed the tired 82nd, pushed through St.-Sauveur in a parallel thrust. The enemy's 77th Division put up a bitter rear-guard fight, was savagely cut up and broken; those who could, escaped -but the wrong way, to the north...
Penned in a Normandy farmhouse, 13 paratroopers of the crack 82nd Division heard the rising crash of American rifle and mortar fire outside. Downstairs their German captors fought savagely in de fense of the house: the American prisoners heard the German commander tell his troops to fight to the last...