82nd Airborne history

For decades, Normandy has been told through familiar names and familiar stories. But what about the men who jumped first into chaos, landed in flooded fields, scattered across enemy territory, and fought anyway? Airborne, Normandy tells the overlooked story of the 82nd Airborne Division and the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment …

By the time the 82nd Airborne Division hit Sicily in July 1943, they were already being sold to the public as something close to myth. America’s first airborne division. Volunteers. Paratroopers. The best of the best. That’s the version everyone remembers. The truth is less clean, and far more useful …