Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum is a museum located at Ardennes and Gela Streets on Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg) Army base. Established in 1945, the museum chronicles the history of the 82nd Airborne Division from 1917 to the present including World War I, World War II, Vietnam War, and Persian Gulf Wars as well as campaigns in Grenada, Panama, Operation Golden Pheasant ...
The United States Army Airborne & Special Operations Museum (ASOM) is part of the U.S. Army Museum Enterprise dedicated to preserving and teaching a public history of the Special Operations and Airborne community, as well as broader United States military history.
On 23 March 1994, twenty-four members of Fort Bragg's 82nd Airborne Division were killed and over 100 others injured while preparing for a routine airborne training operation during the Green Ramp disaster at neighboring Pope Air Force base. It was the worst peacetime loss of life suffered by the division since the end of World War II.
FORT BRAGG — Nine paratroopers will be inducted into the 82nd Airborne Division Hall of Fame next month, officials announced. The ceremony is 10 a.m. Sept 28 at Fort Bragg’s Hall of Heroes ...
Eight new names were added to 82nd Airborne Divison monuments Thursday at Fort Bragg. Here's who the division and families won't forget.
During World War II the division and its members were awarded the following awards: [39] Distinguished Unit Citations: 15; Medal of Honor: 4 Private John R. Towle ; Private First Class Charles N. Deglopper (KIA) First Sergeant Leonard A. Funk Jr. Private Joe Gandara (KIA) (issued 18 March 2014) Distinguished Service Cross: 37; Distinguished ...
The 13th Airborne Division was the fifth airborne division (11th, 13th, 17th, 82nd and 101st) to be formed in the United States during World War II, and was officially activated on Friday 13 August 1943 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, under the command of Major General George W. Griner Jr. [1]
It was activated on 16 September 1992 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and assigned to the 44th Medical Brigade. The battalion consisted of a Headquarters and Support Company and three-lettered Area Support Medical Companies in its original configuration.