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1st Brigade
501st Infantry Regiment |
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Bastogne, Belgium.
"Ace of Clubs" worn in the hat |
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2nd Brigade
502nd IN Regiment |
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"Strike Brigade"
"Black Hearts"
"Ace of Hearts" |
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"Currahee"- Stands Alone
"Ace of Spades"
Featured in Band of Brothers |
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| 101st Airborne Activation |
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1942 under Major General William C. Lee:
"has no history but a rendezvous with destiny" |
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| Embarked for the European Theatre of Operations and continued training |
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| Parachuted into Cotentin Peninsula to become first allied soldiers to set foot onto occupied France |
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Netherlands
September 17, 1944 |
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| Jumped into the Netherlands spearheading Operation Market Garden where they fought for 72 days in a 16 mile corridor. |
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December 1944
Bastogne, Belgium |
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| Surrounded by enemy forces that demanded immediate surrender. BG Antony C. McAuliffe said "nuts!" |
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| End of WWII relegated the 101st to operations duties in Germany and the division was inactivated. |
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September 25, 1956
Arkansas |
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| President Eisenhower ordered operation ARKANSAS where the 327th Infantry escorted the first 9 African-Americans "the Little Rock Nine" to school. |
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July 29, 1965
Vietnam 1st Brigade |
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Ordered to the Republic of Vietnam earning the nickname
"Nomads of Vietnam" |
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| Shed their parachutes in favor of helicopter operations earning a new designation "101st Airborne Division (Airmobile) |
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| MG Sidney Berry signed Divisional General Order 179 authorizing wear of the new Airmobile (later Air Assault) qualification badge. |
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| Division officially redesignated as 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) |
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| Began six month deployments to Sinai Peninsula as members of multinational Force of Observers |
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| 248 Screaming Eagles were killed in a charter airplane crash near Gander, Newfoundland . Arrow Air Flight 1285 |
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| Deployed to Middl East in support of operations DESERT STORM AND DESERT SHIELD. In Kuwait's liberation, 101st fired first shots of the air war and carried out the longest and largest air assault in operations history securing Iraqi territory in Euphrates River Valley. |
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| 3rd Brigade Combat Team "Rakassans" deployed to Shoh-I-Khot Valley that dealt a crippling early blow to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. |
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