101st Airborne Division

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1 Insignia
2 World War II
3 After WWII
4 Vietnam
5 Iraq
- 5.1 Desert Storm/Desert Shield
- 5.2 Iraqi Freedom
6 Misc.

[edit] Insignia

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[edit] World War II

US-Major General Maxwell D. Taylor in outfit of the paratroopers	General Anthony C. McAuliffe - Commanding officer of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II	Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the Day. `Full victory-nothing else' to paratroopers in England, just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe	Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe, artillery commander of the 101st Airborne Division, gives his various glider pilots last minute instructions before the take-off on D plus 1
A group of paratroopers in a French village at St. Marcouf, Utah Beach, France. From here they will move on into the continent, accomplishing their assigned objectives. 8 June 1944	American paratrooper, among the first to make successful landings on the continent, holds a Nazi flag captured in a village assault. Utah Beach, St. Marcouf, France. 8 June 1944	Soldiers of the 101. US-Airborne Division with a nazi flag	Soldiers of the 101. US-Airborne Division in a trench,"The Island",Holland.
Members of the Eindhoven Resistance with troops of the 101st Airborne in front of the Endhoven cathedral during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944	Members of the Eindhoven Resistance in briefing with troops of the 101st Airborne during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944	The haystack at right would have softened the landing for this paratrooper who hit the earth head first during operations in Holland by the 1st Allied Airborne Army. 24 September 1944	Battle of the Bulge - The members of the 101st Airborne Division, right, are on guard for enemy tanks, on the road leading to Bastogne, Belgium. They are armed with bazookas. 23 Dec 1944
Battle of the bulge - Bastogne, Belgium. Troops of the 101st Airborne Division watch C-47’s drop supplies to them. 26 December 1944	Battle of the bulge - The 101st Airborne troops move out of Bastogne, after having been besieged there for ten days, to drive the enemy out of the surrounding district. Belgium 12/31/45	Battle of the bulge - T/Sgt. Harry A. Downard, San Diego, Calif., Signal Corps Photographer, holds up leather thong which was used to tie the legs and coat of this paratrooper 101st Airborne Division, who was killed near Bastogne, Belgium (12 Jan 1945)	The pilot of a C-47 cargo transport crash lands safely after having dropped supplies to elements of the 101st Airborne Division which has successfully repulsed all attempts to capture the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium. 30 Dec 1944
Briealf, Germany - C-47s of the 101st Airborne Division drop supplies on the 4th Infantry Division Sector. This became necessary when rains and early thaw made roads impassable in this area. The supplies consisted of rations, gas, and ammunition. 13 February 1945	Briealf, Germany - C-47s of the 101st Airborne Division drop supplies on the 4th Infantry Division Sector. This became necessary when rains and early thaw made roads impassable in this area. The supplies consisted of rations, gas, and ammunition. 13 February 1945	Monument Signal in Sainte-Mère-Eglise, Normandy, for the 82e and the 101e dropped on the village during the night of 5/6th of June

[edit] After WWII

Members of the 101st US-Airborne Division escorting the Little Rock Nine to school. Little Rock, Arkansas Sep 1957

[edit] Vietnam

Men of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, fire from old Viet Cong trenches during Vietnam war

Ignoring enemy fire, SSG Oscar C. Gallegos, Co B, 2nd Bn, 327th Inf, 101st Abn Div, takes careful aim with the M-72 LAW (light anti-tank weapon) during Operation "Wheeler." Vietnam, 1967

PFC John Henson (Columbia, SC) of the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, cleans his M-16 rifle while on an operation 30 miles west of Kontum, Vietnam. 12 July 1966

Republic of Vietnam: PFC Roger K. Chale (Grand Forks, N.D.), Hq and Hq Co, 1st Bn, 327th Inf., wends his weary way back to his tent after an all-night ambush patrol. His face shows the strain of combat. Operation "Harrison" was launched by the 101st Abn Div in the Rice Bowl area near Tuy Hon. The operation was to search, sweep and destroy the Viet Cong in an area that was not swept by American forces in the past.

[edit] Iraq

[edit] Desert Storm/Desert Shield

Desert Storm - Prisoner-of-War Cage at Forward Operating Base COBRA (101st Airborne)

Desert Storm - UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter at the 101st Airborne Division's Rapid Refuel Point on 4 February 1991. The complex could refuel 30 helicopters simultaneously and was constructed southeast of Rafha in the Northern Province of Saudi Arabia

Desert Storm - UH-60A Blackhawk being refueled, 101st Airborne Division Rapid Refuel Point (RRP) capable of servicing twenty helicopters simultaneously; fuel handling personnel from 102d Quartermaster Detachment, Logistical Base CHARLIE, Northern Province, Saudi Arabia