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82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum

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82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum
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+1 910-432-5307

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SundayClosed
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 4:30pm
Wednesday10am - 4:30pm
Thursday10am - 4:30pm
Friday10am - 4:30pm
Saturday10am - 4:30pm


The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division of the United States Army, specializing in parachute assault operations into denied areas with a U.S. Department of Defense requirement to respond to crisis contingencies anywhere in the world within 18 hours. Based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the 82nd Airborne Division is part of the XVIII Airborne Corps. The 82nd Airborne Division is the U.S. Army's most strategically mobile division. Some journalists have reported that the 82nd Airborne is the best trained light infantry division in the world. More recently, the 82nd Airborne has been conducting operations in Iraq, advising and assisting Iraqi Security Forces.The All American division was constituted, originally as the 82nd Division, in the National Army on 5 August 1917, shortly after the American entry into World War I. It was organized on 25 August 1917, at Camp Gordon, Georgia and later served with distinction on the Western Front in the final months of World War I. Since its initial members came from all 48 states, the division acquired the nickname All-American, which is the basis for its famed AA shoulder patch. The division later served in World War II where, in August 1942, it was reconstituted as the first airborne division of the U.S. Army and fought in numerous campaigns during the war. Famous soldiers of the division include: Sergeant Alvin C. York; General James M. Gavin; General of the Army Omar Bradley; Senator Strom Thurmond ; Senator Jack Reed; R&B singer Lou Rawls; actor William Windom; country music singer Craig Morgan; Renown Independent Baptist Minister Jack Hyles; former Syracuse University football coach Ben Schwartzwalder; fashion critic/choreographer Bruce Darnell; The Honorable Patrick Murphy ; Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards; General Henry Hugh Shelton ; and Colonel Chris Gibson, former commander of the 2d Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment, and later commander of the division's 2d Brigade Combat Team, now a New York Congressman.
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