Fort Bragg trained airborne troops during WWII
Fort Bragg’s history as “Home of the Airborne” started 10 months after the United States entered World War II in the fall of 1942, local historian Roy Parker Jr. wrote in his Military History column for The Fayetteville Observer.That was when the paratroopers of the newly-minted 82nd Airborne Division and their counterparts in the 101st Airborne Division began arriving here from Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, the late Parker wrote in June 2004. The Army trained all five of its airborne […]
