Worn from:
15 August 1942 (With tab 28 August 1942) - Current.

The 101st Division was organized in November 1918 at Camp Shelby,
Mississippi. The design was approved in 1923, and the tab "Airborne"
was added in 1942. The design is based on one of the Civil War symbols
of the state of Wisconsin, this state being the territory of the original
191st Division after World War I. The black shield recalls the old Iron
Brigade, one of whose regiments possessed Old Abe, the famous war eagle.
The story goes that a Chippewa, Chief Sky, captured an eaglet on the
Flambeau River in Wisconsin in 1861 and sold him for a bushel of corn.
A subsequent purchaser gave the eaglet to the Eau Claire Eagles
(Company C of the Eighth Wisconsin Regiment). A sergeant carried him
into battle, perched on a shield between the national colors and the
regimental colors. Old Abe flew to the end of his tether and screamed
while the guns roared, and the brigade shouted in response. Thus the
eagle went through thirty-six battles. He was wounded in the assault
on Vicksburg and again in the Battle of Corinth. During this latter
engagement, the Confederate General Sterling Price is said to have
offered a reward for the bird's capture or death.

Current location: Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Campaigns:
World War II (Normandy, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe),

Vietnam (Defense, Counteroffensive and Phases II/III/IV/V/VI/VII,
Tet and Tet/69 Counteroffensives, Summer-Fall 1969,
Winter-Spring 1970, Sanctuary Counteroffensive, Consolidation I and II),

Armed Forces Expeditions (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait).

Decorations:
Presidential Unit Citation Army (streamers embroidered Normandy , and Bastogne),
French Croix de Guerre with Palm World War II (streamer embroidered Normandy),
Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm (streamer embroidered Bastogne),
Belgian Fourragere 1940, cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army
for action in France and Belgium, Netherlands Orange Lanyard,

Republic of Vietnam Crosses of Gallantry with Palm
(streamers embroidered Vietnam 1968 - 1969, and Vietnam 1971),
Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal First Class
(streamer embroidered Vietnam 1968 - 1970).