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...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...
...Lang had spent long weeks with the Fifth Army fighters scrabbling their way foot by foot through the mountains to Cassino. ("By his cheerful sharing of all dangers and hardships he has come to be considered a member of the 'All-American' Division," Commanding General M. B. Ridgway wrote.) And true to form, in the first attack from the beachhead below Rome, dawn found Lang being spattered with mud from exploding German shells right up in the very front lines...
...divisional commaders, one of the highest-rated soldiers of the U.S. Army is Major General Hugh J. Gaffey, an artillery specialist turned leader of the 2nd Armored Division. Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, commander of the 82nd, first U.S. airborne division to strike the enemy, is a strapping six-footer who made a reputation as G-3 (operations) officer in the Second Army maneuvers...
Bradley, Keyes, Allen and Ridgway went to West Point. Gaffey and Truscott entered the Army as reserve officers in 1917. Middleton began as an infantry private in 1910, and eight years later, because of outstanding leadership in battle, was a full colonel and the youngest regimental commander in the Regular Army...
...45th Infantry Division moved in from the beaches toward and through Vittorio and a juncture with Canadians of the Eighth Army. Some of the fighting was hard, the deeds of these divisions were valiant, but the detailed accounts were delayed. Inland, early in the advance, Major General Matthew B. Ridgway's 82nd Air-Borne Division preceded the other divisions to Sicily. Unannounced in the first eleven days of the fighting were the positions and accomplishments of the 2nd Armored Division, commanded by 47-year-old Major General Hugh J. Gaffey, who had been General Patton's Chief...