82nd Airborne Combat Jumps Question

Hi there everybody,

I have a question. I know the 82nd made combat jumps over Sicily, Normandy, and Holland but did the 82nd make any other combat jumps during World War II?

Thanks for your help in satisfying my curiosity.

TC1

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Salerno

On 21 Mar 2002, Keith W. Gannett wrote:

Elements of the 82nd (one regiment, I think) jumped into the Salerno beachhead in September of 1943 - that's the only other 82nd combat air drop which comes readily to mind besides the three you note.

Cheers and all,

I think they were staging for a jump in the Po Valley around March or April of '45, but the ground forces punched through and it was cancelled.

George Z.

> March or April of '45, but the ground forces punched through > and it was cancelled.

My father was in the 82nd during WWII. He told me they were training to jump on Templehof in Berlin when the Battle of the Bulge started and they were redeployed. BTW the 82nd ended the war in Ludwigslust east of the Elbe river.

You are undoubtedly right. My Troop Carrier unit was actually deployed to staging bases, but I cannot recall which airborne troops we were going to drop...they possibly may have been Commonwealth airborne troops. We had previously done a certain amount of flying training towing British Horsa gliders.

George Z.

It is correct to say that the 82nd made four combat jumps - Sicily, Salerno, Normandy, and Holland, but if memory serves me correctly, I believe that only the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment did all four jumps.

Edward Tannen

check this site
http://www.ww2-airborne.us/division/82_overview.html

or put in search: wwII 82nd airbrone

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