82nd Airborne

The 82nd airborne Division had in its rows the most prestigious soldiers of the American Army.

The story of this glorious division was forged by thousands of anonymous parachutists who always ready accepted to jump in extreme situations and to achieve their objective on the ground whatever the conditions.

Trenches of the Somme to the desert of Iraq while passing by the Norman Bocage, of the snow-covered forests of the Belgian Ardennes to the jungle of Vietnam, the paras of the 82nd Division achieved their mission, without never failing owe them.

They are the spearhead of the American Army since nearly 90 years. This Memorial album which gathers nearly thousand photographs for the majority new, coming from private archives and the files of the division.