82nd Airborne Divison part of D-Day history 75 years ago
Seventy-five years ago, on June 6, 1944, 60,000 American servicemen joined Allied forces as part of the D-Day invasion to liberate German-occupied France.Among the Americans were about 12,000 men from the 82nd Airborne Division — 6,000 parachutists and 6,000 glidermen — some of whom landed the day before the invasion.Three parachute infantry regiments and a reinforced glider infantry regiment boarded hundreds of transport planes and gliders to participate […]
