GEN Matthew B. Ridgway GEN Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II, recognized the importance of pathfinder operations, leading to the prominent legacy that ...

Hamilton, the last surviving Pathfinder pilot from the Normandy Invasion, was very active with the D-Day Squadron, the DC-3 Society, and the WWII Airborne ... from the 82nd Airborne at precise ...

Patrick Work took command of the 82nd Airborne Division ... The division’s lineage to World War II, from Sicily to Salerno to Normandy to Holland and then further on into the Battle of Bulge ...

On the airborne troops landed behind enemy lines on D-Day ... Shortly after midnight the British 6th and American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions began landing. On the eastern flank, British ...