Word: 82nd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walton, who landed with the paratroopers, is with the 82nd Airborne, which is probably the best spot here, and will stick with them. I will try to keep you covered on overall American action and am now proceeding with Capa for a closer look at the currently most active sector...
Meanwhile, Bradley brought in the 9th Division, teamed it with the 82nd Airborne Division, another battle-tried outfit which had made the first landings in the Cotentin. While the Nazis battered their heads and their armor around Montebourg, the 9th and 82nd struck west...
Passing Through. Battle-weary but still pushing on, the 82nd made a daring crossing of the Douve River. By nightfall Thursday, its general had his command post at a turreted chateau overlooking St.-Sauveur-le-Vicomte. In the morning, the general personally reconnoitered the frail, sagging bridge leading into the crumbling, burning village, decided it would do. The 82nd marched...
...load was TNT. Before this human bomb could explode, his mates behind him pushed him out. The last they saw of him, his parachute had opened and he was drifting to earth in a shroud of bursting flame. Some of the airborne divisions were identified: the U.S. 82nd, tough veterans of Sicily and Salerno; the U.S. 101st, in its first battle; the British 6th. They captured gun positions, pillboxes, road junctions, destroyed bridges. Some of them made contact later with ground troops. Some of them, the Germans claimed, were annihilated. The Old Ladies. It was at 5:35 a.m. that...
Distressing, too, was the state of the Chinese Army in the 82nd grueling month of its war with Japan. Poorly clothed and fed, poorly trained and armed, it was no match for the Japanese war machine...