101st Airborne Division
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Insignia
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US-Division 101st Airborne - Patch (SVG version)
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US-Division 101st Airborne - Patch
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US-Division 101st Airborne -1st brigade bastogne Patch
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US-Division 101st Airborne - 2nd brigade strike Patch
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US-Division 101st Airborne - 3rd brigade rakkasans Patch
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US-Division 101st Airborne - 101st aviation eagle warriors Patch
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US-Division 101st Airborne - 159th aviation eagle thunder Patch
World War II
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US-Major General Maxwell D. Taylor in outfit of the paratroopers
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General Anthony C. McAuliffe - Commanding officer of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II
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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
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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
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Some paratroopers of the 377th PFAB (A and D companies), 3/502th (B, C and HQ companies), 506th (A, D and E companies) and 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division in Marmion Farm, Ravenoville, Utah Beach, France. June 6, 1944
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American paratrooper, among the first to make successful landings on the continent, holds a Nazi flag captured in a village assault. Marmion Farm at Ravenoville, Utah Beach, France. June 6, 1944
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3/502nd paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division with a captured nazi flag. Carentan, Normandy, France, June 12, 1944
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Paratroopers of the 2nd/506th (101st Airborne Division), near Randwijk, Holland. October 1944.
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Members of the Eindhoven Resistance with troops of the 326th Medical Company (101st Airborne) in front of the Eindhoven cathedral during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944
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Members of the Eindhoven Resistance in briefing with troops of the 101st Airborne during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944
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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
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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
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Battle of the bulge - Bastogne, Belgium. Troops of the 101st Airborne Division watch C-47’s drop supplies to them. 26 December 1944
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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Monument Signal in Sainte-Mère-Eglise, Normandy, for the 82e and the 101e dropped on the village during the night of 5/6 June
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101st Airborne memorial near Foy, Belgium
After WWII
[edit]I know it's not much. but Not a word was mentioned about us being combat ready. live ammo, switch blade knives,chutes,and all on the tarmac. waiting to go during the cuba crisis. Or did that not count? Leland monroe 101st AB DIV.506 battle gp. HQ. comp. 1961,62,63 "CURAHEE"
Vietnam
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Men of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, fire from old Viet Cong trenches during Vietnam war
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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
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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
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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.
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Soldier in Vietnam armed with an M60
Iraq
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Desert Storm - Prisoner-of-War Cage at Forward Operating Base COBRA (101st Airborne)
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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
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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
Iraqi Freedom
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On patrol in Mosul, Iraq with MG David Petraeus, commander of the 101st Abn. Div. (AASLT) - 21 August 2003
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2007, des homme de la 101e AD avec des militaires irakiens de la 4e division.
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CPL Jared Jenkins and 1SG Arthur Abiera, Apache Troop, 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, patrol the outskirts of Sadr City, Iraq.
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Three soldiers posing befor the Hands of Victory.
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A U.S. Army sniper with Bravo Company, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division stands ready to engage targets during a mission on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 28, 2005.
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U.S. Army Capt. Thomas Melton, commander,101st Airborne Division, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 75th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Squadron's Alpha Troop, discusses the day's mission with his counterpart from the Iraqi Army Division, in Bakariya, Iraq, Dec. 14, 2007.
Enduring Freedom (War in Afghanistan)
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Landing in an area around Bagram
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Supply flight to 4th Infantry Regiment, FOB Baylough, Zabul Province, 2010
Misc.
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Troops with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell greet President Bush as he arrives at Campbell Army Airfield, March 18, 2004
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101st Airborne Division in the Army parade of Italy 2007
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A soldier is shooting a PM-98 during a live fire exercise.