It was organized and formally activated on 25 August 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia. The 82nd Division was first constituted during World War I on 5 August 1917 as an infantry division in the National Army.
Origins Review of the 328th Infantry Regiment at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Georgia, 1 February 1918 Army and fought in numerous campaigns during the war. The division later served in World War II where, in August 1942, it was reconstituted as the first airborne division of the U.S. Since its initial members came from all 48 states, the division acquired the nickname All-American, which is the basis for its "AA" on the shoulder patch. 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. The 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. Army's most strategically mobile division. Based at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, the 82nd Airborne Division is part of the XVIII Airborne Corps. Department of Defense requirement to "respond to crisis contingencies anywhere in the world within 18 hours". 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.
"All American Division", "82nd Division", "Eighty Deuce", "America's Guard of Honor", "The 82nd" “Division”
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