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	101st Airborne Division
		The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) —nicknamed the Screaming Eagles— is an air assault division of the United States Army mainly trained for air assault operations.
		Airborne Division was reactivated as a training unit at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky, in 1948 and again in 1950.
		The Division then went on to a tour of duty as part of the occupation forces of Iraq, using the city of Mosul as their primary base of operations, before being withdrawn in early 2004 for rest and refit.
	www.506pireasyco.com /101st_airborne_division.htm (1029 words)

	101st Airborne Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Airborne Division was reactivated as a training unit at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky, in 1948 and again in 1950.
		The 101st was deployed in the northern I Corps region operating against the NVA infiltration routes through Laos and the A Shau Valley.
		Division commander MG Thomas Turner hosted the first governors' conference for the six provinces in the division's area of operations, as well as the neighboring province of Erbil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/101st_Airborne_Division (3625 words)

	Division
		Division XXI (DXXI) is the force designed to remain decisive in land warfare and optimized for mid to high intensity spectrum of conflict into the 21st Century.
		DXXI is the division design needed to serve as the core force essential for force cohesion and dominance to meet the demands in performing offensive and defensive operations in the expanded Division Battle Space of the future.
		The intention is to retain the 10 division headquarters as battle command headquarters, but take much of the enabling resources, the air defense, the signal and all of the enablers that are in the division base, and push them down to brigade level and increase the number of brigades under each one of those divisions.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/division.htm (2385 words)

	101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
		The 101st is unique in that it normally conducts operations 150 to 300 kilometers beyond the line of contact or forward-line-of-own-troops, requiring theater- and national-level intelligence support as a matter of course.
		The 101st Airborne Division was reactivated as a training unit at Camp Breckinridge, Ky., in 1948 and again in 1950.
		In May 1954, the 101st reappeared as a training unit at Ft, Jackson, South Carolina, and in 1956 was transferred to Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, for reorganization as a combat division.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/101abn.htm (2296 words)

	101st Airborne WWII Division Chronicle
		The reserve division was disbanded 15 August 1942, and concurrently reconstituted in the Army of the United States as the 101st Airborne Division.
		In the division's southern sector, it was to seize the la Barquette lock and destroy a highway bridge northwest of the town of Carentan and a railroad bridge further west.
		The planes carrying the 101st encountered heavy antiaircraft fire as they approached their targets, but the pilots were able to hold formation, and the paratroopers, for the most part, were delivered to the correct drop zones.
	www.501stpir.com /101st_airborne_history/101stabn_history.html (4945 words)

	502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment - 101st Airborne Division
		On 2 March 1942, the unit was redesignated as the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment.
		As the men of the Deuce assembled, the groups headed past Division HQ at Hiesville and reformed at la Croix Pan and Blosville, along the N-13, north of St Come du Mont. They migrated south and received their toughest mission of the war: to spearhead the drive south along the N13 Carentan Causeway.
		When the 101st migrated north to hold positions on the 'Island', SW of Arnhem, the 502 was in reserve near Dodewaard, where action was limited to patrolling.
	www.airborne101st.com /grouphistory.html (1449 words)

	Armchair Headquarters
		National Museum of the United States Air Force - The National Museum of the US Air Force (NMUSAF) portrays the history and traditions of the United States Air Force through specialized displays and exhibition of historical items at the USAFM.
		3d Armored Division Museum and Archives, The - The 3d Armored Division Museum and Archives is an activity of The Association of 3d Armored Division (Spearhead) Veterans and Museum, Inc. Founded and incorporated in the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1997.
		101st Airborne, 502 PIR Texas/Louisiana/Oklahoma/Michigan Reenactment Unit - The purpose of this unit is to honor through accurate portrayal and living history activities the fighting men of the 101st Airborne during World War II.
	www.armchairgeneral.com /links.php (4633 words)

	Saving Private Ryan: 101st Airborne Division
		The 101st Airborne Division was activated on August 16, 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana under the command of General William C. Lee.
		Training of the 101st, which had been designated as an airborne unit on August 28, 1942, began in October of 1942 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and by July of the next year the division was considered trained and ready for combat.
		The 101st remained in occupied Germany until November of 1945, after which the unit was sent to France, deactivated, and returned to the United States.
	www.sproe.com /o/101-airborne.html (665 words)

	101st Airborne Division receives overseas deployment orders - Thursday, 02/06/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The division — along with its 270 helicopters — will ''support possible future operations in the global war on terrorism,'' according to a statement released by the public affairs office at Fort Campbell, where the division is based.
		The 101st is a famed division that parachuted at Normandy, fought on ''Hamburger Hill'' in Vietnam, and hunted suspected Taliban and al-Qaida fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan.
		The 101st said the helicopters were to be dismantled and placed on a ship as part of a readiness drill.
	tennessean.com /local/archives/03/02/28575111.shtml (428 words)

	DefenseLINK News: 101st Airborne Commander Describes Stability Ops, Past Battles
		He said his nine battalions of infantry patrolling the cities and towns of the region prove to the Iraqis that the United States is committed to the region.
		The division is helping to secure the interim government that is beginning in the area, and has opened Iraq's border with Syria.
		Division ordnance personnel are helping collect and secure munitions and weapons left over from the conflict.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/May2003/n05132003_200305132.html (568 words)

	'I Had a Front Row Seat'
		Eugene Levine, a weather observer with the 82nd Airborne Division, landed in Normandy on glider with a radio transmitter meant for the division’s command headquarters.
		The unit’s insignia and was proudly displayed on the left shoulder of each soldier as a member of the new, distinctive, one-of-a-kind United States fighting unit.
		August 15, 1942, was a historic day – for the United States, for the Army and for the character modern warfare – the first American airborne division was born.
	www.ausa.org /dday/levine.htm (1164 words)

	DefenseLINK News: 101st Airborne Division Starts to Head Home
		CAMP DOHA, Kuwait, Jan. 16, 2004 — The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), which landed in Kuwait in February 2003 to support Operation Iraqi Freedom, is beginning its 10,500-mile, three-month odyssey back home to Fort Campbell, Ky., with a massive transfer of troops and equipment by air and land.
		Jeffery Schloesser, 101st Airborne Division assistant division commander for support, has overseen the division's redeployment operations in Kuwait, which serves as the primary staging area for all equipment and personnel returning to the United States.
		The division's first redeployment convoys arrived shortly after the beginning of the new year, and the soldiers are washing their equipment, vehicles and some of the division's 200-plus aircraft that will be shrink-wrapped and sent back to Fort Campbell.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Jan2004/n01162004_200401163.html (545 words)

	Army Air Forces in World War II
		Elements of the British 1st Airborne Division and corps headquarters, with their equipment, were lifted from the Newbury region by 145 United States parachute aircraft and 354 British and 4 American gliders towed by 358 British tugs.
		The planes carrying the British 1st Division and the United States 82d Division followed a route over the Dutch island of Schouwen to the IP at Boxtel, where a turn to the left brought tem to their drop zones and landing zones.
		Junction was made with elements of the 101st Division at 1100 in the village at Nieuw Acht, northwest of Eindhoven.
	www.usaaf.net /ww/vol4/vol4pg6.htm (1113 words)

	Listing ofWWII American Airborne Units
		The WWII Airborne Demonstration Team Foundation was formed to honor and serve the memory of those men who fought and died to preserve America's freedom during WWII as members of Airborne units of the United States Army.
		Further, it is the goal of the Foundation to foster, promote and engage in research of WWII airborne operations and military history and to inform and educate the public through airborne operations demonstrations throughout the United States.
		This unit was established to keep alive a strong tradition among the American fighting elite: those willing to jump into enemy territory with little or no support, then survive in a heavily defended combat zone, surrounded by the enemy so that others may be directed to the combat zone safely.
	www.reenactor.net /ww2/allied/units_ami_ab.html (1287 words)

	CNN.com - 'Screaming Eagles' of 101st have valiant history - Feb. 7, 2003
		The 101st Airborne was deployed in Afghanistan in 2002.
		The U.S. Army's only air assault division, the 101st Airborne Division, is headed to the Persian Gulf region soon as part of the buildup for a possible war against Iraq, military officials said Thursday.
		In January 1991, the 101st participated in the deepest air assault into enemy territory in world history as part of the coalition campaign against Iraq.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/02/07/sprj.irq.101st.history/index.html (573 words)

	Army Air Forces in World War II
		After an initial study of the capabilities of IX TCC, with application to the problem in hand, a coordinating conference was called of all air and airborne commanders involved, with a view to forming the tactical plan.
		Selection of staging airfields was based on the then location of troop carrier fields, distance from target areas, tactical composition of airborne units, suitability for marshaling gliders, and location of supplies for emergency resupply missions to airborne troops.
		Airborne troop units were made up to coincide with the tactical air formation desired by the troop carrier forces.
	www.usaaf.net /ww/vol4/vol4pg4.htm (1252 words)

	Utah Beach to Cherbourg
		The sources on which the narrative is based consist primarily of the official records of the units involved and of data collected by the writer and other historical officers in the field through interviews with participants in the action.
		The gap in the records of the airborne division was largely filled by voluminous material gathered in interviews by Col. S.L.A. Marshall in the field shortly after the action.
		Supplementary data on the 9th and 4th Divisions were gathered by the author in the field, and additional material on the 4th Division made available by its historian, Lt. Col.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/utah/utah.htm (758 words)

	101st Airborne Division - Wikimedia Commons
		Members of the Eindhoven Resistance with troops of the 101st Airborne in front of the Endhoven cathedral during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944
		Battle of the Bulge - The members of the 101st Airborne Division, right, are on guard for enemy tanks, on the road leading to Bastogne, Belgium.
		The pilot of a C-47 cargo transport crash lands safely after having dropped supplies to elements of the 101st Airborne Division which has successfully repulsed all attempts to capture the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/101st_Airborne_Division (702 words)

	CallofDuty
		Players will be tasked with regrouping with their comrades as well as remnants of other divisions in order to complete their set of objectives.
		Set up as another support viewpoint of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, Evans and his British compatriot's crash land near their first objective, the famed Pegasus Bridge which is a strategic location during World War II needed for transport of heavy equipment and troops.
		The British forces seem clear of mind, determined, and anally organized in their plans and operations, right down to the nicely typed mission info sheet that is provided to you at the start of each level (compared to the American version which is hand written).
	www.the-laser.com /callofduty.htm (2153 words)

	Richard Warren Pershing, First Lieutenant, United States Army
		Airborne Division and was killed in action on February 17, 1968.
		His brother, John Warren Pershing III, Colonel, United States Army, died in June 1999 and is buried with him and their grandfather in Section 34 of Arlington National Cemetery.
		That winter, on February 17, 1968, a 24-year-old lieutenant in the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam was searching for the body of a missing soldier when he died amid a rocket attack and small-arms fire.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /richardw.htm (415 words)

	The Distinguished Flying Cross Society
		Arriving over the designated area, he was informed by the Tactical Air Controller (Airborne) that eight helicopters had previously been downed by hostile fire while attempting to aid the besieged unit, which critically needed air support to cover its withdrawal to a more secure position for extraction.
		His heroic actions and bold initiative were instrumental in enabling the fiendly unit to move to a secure landing zone from which it was subsequently extracted.
		The friendly unit was deploying for an assault upon a large North Vietnamese Army force occupying fortified positions in the village of Thon Kim Doi, twelve miles northwest of Phy Bai.
	www.dfcsociety.org /citation_detail.asp?ID=4297 (574 words)

	U.S., IRAQI LEADERS GATHER FOR TELECOM SUMMIT
		The division is also responsible for 11 new internet cafes for the use of Iraqi citizens and the complete reconstruction of several post offices in the Nineveh Province.
		“Signalers” of the 101st are presently involved in dozens of missions across northern Iraq, including acquiring a modern cable splicing machine from the United States, a purchase of approximately $42,000, said Maj. Jim Enicks, division communications officer.
		....The 101st Airborne Division has already completed 31 major communications projects in northern Iraq, including its donation of 212 computers to the Mosul University...The division is also responsible for 11 new internet cafes for the use of Iraqi citizens and the complete reconstruction of several post offices in the Nineveh Province.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1040565/posts (906 words)

	Saving Private Ryan - The Film Guide - A Wikia wiki
		Thereafter it is settles into the fictional tale of the search for a paratrooper of the United States 101st Airborne Division.
		Eventually, at the cost of two members of their unit, Miller and his men find Ryan defending a vital bridge with a handful of men from the 101st.
		Miller reluctantly accepts Ryan's decision and takes command of Ryan's unit, hoping to defend the bridge against the German troops that are already on their way.
	filmguide.wikia.com /wiki/Saving_Private_Ryan (1703 words)

	UnitedCargo
		Jeff Riedel is Director of Continuous Improvement for United Airport Operations and Cargo and is based at the company's world headquarters in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
		Prior to joining United, Riedel worked as a Management Consultant with Mercer Management Consulting where he oversaw high-visibility projects including: network redesigns, inventory reduction opportunities, market testing, and market strategy development.
		Riedel also served in the United States Army with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) and 101st Airborne Division, achieving the commissioned officer rank of Captain.
	www.unitedcargo.com /company/pressroom/bio_detail.jsp?ID=23 (175 words)

	Stories from WWII
		On D-Day as the 4th Division moved off of Utah Beach, my Father's company picked up a couple of German prisoners.
		They had made contact with the 101st Airborne Division.
		They ran back and the two men from the 101st were standing there with the two German prisoners dead on the road.
	www.hbo.com /apps/band/site/client/stories/curated_story.jsp?exid=715 (115 words)

	"The Unquiet American" by Aram Roston
		It kept the United Nations, the State Department, and the NGOs on the periphery, both in the planning process and in the administration of the country.
		Though American troops continued to provide the bulk of the security, the United States accelerated its efforts to quickly recruit, train, and equip a new Iraqi police and military and hand over responsibility for controlling the country and fighting the insurgency.
		David Petraeus, who led the 101st Airborne Division's drive to Baghdad and now runs the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq, or MNSTC-I. In Iraq, it is phonetically referred to as “Minsticky.” One of Petraeus's priorities at Minsticky was to better arm Iraq's small military, which was woefully under-equipped to deal with terrorists and insurgents.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2005/0506.roston.html (6028 words)

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