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...ladder since the day in 1929 when he pinned on his shavetail's bars at West Point. General George C. Marshall tagged him as a comer early in World War II. He served with distinction as General Matt Ridgway's deputy commander, jumped with the 82nd Airborne Division on Dday. At 37, succeeding Ridgway as boss of the 82nd, he was the youngest division commander in the U.S. Army...
Honored at Jamestown, Tenn. (pop. 2,115) by his old 82nd Division (long since an airborne outfit), old (69), ailing Sergeant Alvin York whispered his thanks for a new auto equipped to carry his wheelchair (he was crippled by a stroke in 1954). Then, exhausted, Medal-of-Honorman York beckoned to friends and was wheeled from the speaker's platform while the oratory rumbled on, returned by ambulance to his home in nearby Pall Mall...
...planes and 30 ships, making it the biggest U.S. military show in Latin America since the 1930s. As the landing force knifed inland, a swarm of helicopters deposited another Marine assault force near the vital Gatun Locks. Two days later 1,000 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division floated down to take strategic ground on the Pacific side of the Isthmus...
Weatherly-White, who showed up at the meet wearing a black derby, checkered suit, and crimson vest, and changed into a white siren suit for the jump, received his training as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. He is a third-year Medical School student and, with David B. Burnham '57, is co-captain of the Cambridge Parachuting Club...
...fully airborne, highly flexible but fully coordinated unit-capable of rapierlike attack, swift dispersal, and bludgeon riposte under any conditions. On paper, the new 101st seems to fit the bill. With a complement of 11,486 men, it is approximately one-third smaller than its two older sisters (the 82nd at Fort Bragg, the 11th at Augsburg, Germany). But it is in its mobility and organization that the 101st provides its novelties...