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18-MAR-2004

Worn from:
21 October 1918 (With tab "Airborne" 31 August 1942) - Current.

The Eighty-second Division was originally organized in August 1917
at Camp Gordon, Georgia. The double "A" refers to the nickname
All-American Division, which was adopted by the organization in
France during World War I. In 1942 permission was granted the
division to use the world "Airborne" on a tab over the shoulder-sleeve insignia.

Current location: Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Campaigns:
World War I, (St.-Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, Lorraine 1918),

World War II (Sicily, Naples-Foggia, Normandy, Rhineland,
Ardennes - Alsace, Central Europe),

Vietnam (Counteroffensive Phases IV/V/VI, Tet and Tet/69
Counteroffensives, Summer-Fall 1969),

Armed Forces Expeditions (Grenada, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait).

Decorations:
Presidential Unit Citation Army (streamer embroidered Ste. Mere Eglise),
French Croix de Guerre
World War II (streamers embroidered Ste. Mere, Eglise, and Cotentin),
French Croix de Guerre
World War II Fourragere, Belgian Fourragere 1940, cited in the Order
of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes, and in Belgium
and Germany, Military Order of William (streamer embroidered Nijmegen 1944),
Netherlands Orange Lanyard).

Canon PowerShot S50
1/13s f/2.8 at 7.1mm full exif

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