The 82nd Infantry Division was redesignated and the 101st was activated on 15 August 1942 as the Army's first two airborne divisions. The 11th, 13th and 17th Airborne Divisions were activated by 1943.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) - Lynn W. Aas of Minot has the honor of being the official representative of the 17th Airborne Division at the 70th annual reenactment of the Battle of the Bulge in the town of ...

He entered the U.S. Army on March 22, 1943, and fought in the European Theatre with the 17th Airborne Division of the 193rd Airborne Infantry. Aas had his first combat experience in the Battle of ...

In this phase, the XVIII Airborne Corps shed its peacetime command responsibilities for the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) -- a relationship that began prior to the 1944 invasion of Holland ...

World War II veterans of the 17th Airborne Division, now all in their 90s, gathered in Lancaster County Sunday to tell stories of fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, or flying in a glider over ...

The home of the 82nd Airborne and Special Operations Forces, commonly known as the place where a president of the United States places ... Regiment, 17th Airborne Division of the 18th Airborne ...

The 17th Airborne and the 6th British Airborne divisions joined forces — a combined force of 17,000 men — and were dropped into an area containing 85,000 German troops, the division history ...

LANCASTER, Pa. -- World War II veterans who served in the 17th Airborne Division gathered in Lancaster to tell their stories and reunite. Those vets served in the Battle of the Bulge during the war.

The United States Army post near Fayetteville, ... Roland Bragg was involved in the infamous Battle of the Bulge and served in the 17th Airborne Division, according to the memorandum.

My father was a private first class in the 17th Airborne Division and made the parachute jump into Germany where he acquired an unusual semi- automatic pistol from a surrendering German SS officer.

WWII veteran Sydney Levit Honor Flight Boca Raton Palm Beach County Fire Rescue 99-year-old Heartwarming send-off 17th Airborne Division BOCA RATON, Fla. (CBS12) — A chorus of "Mr. Sid! Mr.