The American 82nd Airborne Division again received armored vehicles

Literature[ | ]

• Francois de Lannoy, Joseph Charita.
  German tank troops. 1935-1945; lane M. Zhukova. - M.: AST, 2005.
• Stoves, Rolf. Die gepanzerten und motorisierten deutschen Großverbände 1935-1945: Divisionen und selbstständige Brigade.
  Dörfler, 2003. ISBN 978-3-89555-102-4
• Marcin Bryja, Panzerwaffe, Wydawnictwo Militaria, Warszawa, 1996, ISBN 83-86209-67-4
• Chris Bishop, Niemieckie wojska pancerne w II wojnie światowej, Wydawnictwo Bellona, ​​Warszawa, 2009, ISBN 9788311113916
• Dariusz Jędrzejewski, Zbigniew Lalak, Niemiecka broń pancerna 1939—1945, Wyd. Lampart, Warszawa, 1998, ISBN 83-867-7636-6
• G. Guderian, Memoirs of a Soldier. - Smolensk: Rusich, 1999, pp. 315, 321.
• W. Haupt, Battles of Army Group Center. — M.: Yauza, Eksmo, 2006

In culture

Movies

• Sergeant York (1941)
• Ocean's 11 (1960)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• A Bridge Too Far (1977)
• Rambo (1982)
• Rambo 2 (1985)
• Rambo 3 (1988)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Home of the Brave (2006)
• Rambo 4 (2008)

Computer games

• Medal of Honor: Frontline (2002)
• Call of Duty (2003)
• Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood (2005)
• Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (2005)
• Call of Duty: Roads to Victory (2007)
• Medal of Honor: Vanguard (2007)
• Medal of Honor: Airborne (2007)

History[edit | edit code]

The 82nd (Infantry) Division was first formed as part of the US Army in March 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia. It recruited soldiers from almost all states of the United States, which is why it received the nickname “All Americans” and the shoulder chevron “AA”. In mid-1918, the 82nd US Army Division was transferred to France, where it took part in World War I as the 82nd Infantry Division. As part of General J. Pershing's 1st Army, the 82nd Army Division took part in the Saint-Mihiel operation and the Meuse-Argonne offensive. E. York, known as “Sergeant York,” fought as part of the division.

After the end of the war in May 1919, the 82nd Army Division was demobilized, and the division's control and headquarters were in the US Army Reserve.

On March 25, 1942, at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, under the command of Major General O. Bradley, the 82nd Army Division was reactivated to wartime strength due to the United States' entry into World War II. On August 15 of the same year, under the command of Brigadier General Matthew Ridgway, the 82nd Army Division was reorganized from infantry to airborne (the first of its kind in the US Armed Forces). The 82nd Airborne Division's baptism of fire took place in July 1943 during the landing of Allied troops on Sicily. Then the 82nd Airborne Division took part in the fighting in Italy.

In June 1944, the 82nd Airborne Division, under the command of Major General M. Ridgeway, along with other allied forces landed in Normandy. After 33 days of fighting on French territory, units of the 82nd Airborne Division were redeployed to Great Britain, since the combat losses of the division's units during this period amounted to more than 5,000 military personnel killed, wounded and missing. In September 1944, the 82nd Airborne carried out another airborne assault under the command of Brigadier General J. Gavin during the unsuccessful Allied Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands. During the German counteroffensive in the Ardennes in December, 82nd Airborne Paratrooper Private First Class Martin uttered one of the most memorable phrases of the war in the United States, telling a retreating American tank crew to the rear: “Stay here! I’m from the 82nd Airborne Division, and these bastards won’t get any further than me!” Units of the 82nd Airborne Division crossed the Elbe on April 30, 1945.

From July to December 1945, units and units of the 82nd Airborne Division carried out occupation service in the Allied garrison in Berlin. Upon its deployment to US territory, the division entered the US Army Strategic Reserve as a rapid reaction force. In the shortest possible time, units of the 82nd Airborne Division could be transferred to anywhere on the planet. The 82nd Airborne Division was fully operational during virtually every international crisis, and played a significant role during the US occupation of the Dominican Republic (-), Grenada (1983), and Panama (1989).

Due to the division's strategic importance, it did not participate in the Korean War and took only a limited part in the Vietnam War, sending one brigade group to South Vietnam, stationed there in -1969.

The paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division became the first American troops to arrive in Saudi Arabia since Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in August 1990. During the ground phase of the Gulf War, the division was on the left flank of the Multinational Coalition, in contact with elements of the French 6th Light Division

In 1990, it had more than 12.6 thousand personnel. There were 54 M551 Sheridan light tanks in service, 54 units. 105 mm towed howitzers M102, more than 500 units. ATGM, 140 mortars (60 units 81 mm M29A1, 81 units 60 mm M224), 48 units. ZSU M163 "Vulcan", 69 units. FIM-92 Stinger MANPADS (fire crews), 132 helicopters (18 fire support AH-64 Apache, 47 general purpose UH-60 Black Hawk, 61 reconnaissance and six electronic warfare), a significant number of cars, motorcycles, radios, other weapons and military equipment .

During the 1990s and 2000s, the 82nd Airborne Division was called upon to perform humanitarian missions during Hurricanes Andrew (1992) and Katrina (2005) in the United States. She was put on alert during the crises in Haiti, Bosnia, and during the NATO operation against Yugoslavia, but in none of these cases was her intervention required. The division took part in military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq; Its units, as a rule, are deployed to these countries for a fairly short period of time during the strengthening of security measures before local elections.

In January 2010, 3,500 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division were sent to Haiti to maintain order after the earthquake in Haiti.

Armament

The personal armament of American paratroopers has always been at a good level. Now this is an M4A carbine, an M16A2 rifle and an M249 machine gun. The ammunition usually includes six magazines for automatic weapons and four grenades. Also, American paratroopers are equipped with Javelin anti-tank systems, the Stinger MANPADS complex and the M224 60-mm mortar.

The main weapons of Russian paratroopers are the AK-74M assault rifle and the Pecheneg light machine gun. Recently, silent weapons have begun to enter service with individual battalions of the Russian Airborne Forces. Such samples include the Vintorez, a special sniper rifle, and the Val assault rifle, which fires 9-mm subsonic cartridges.

Heavy weapons are considered the weak point of the American Airborne Forces. For the most part, these are combat vehicles equipped with 105 mm guns and towed 155 mm M777 howitzers. The US military leadership had to abandon the Sheridan light tanks, armed with 152 mm guns, due to their weak armor.

The Russian Airborne Forces, unlike the American ones, are fully motorized. The basis of domestic military equipment is BMD and armored personnel carriers; in recent years, the T-72B3M tank has begun to appear. The newest model of heavy weapons for the Russian landing force is the BMD-4M. The vehicle is equipped with a 100 mm cannon, a 30 mm grenade launcher and two machine guns - 7.62 mm and 5.45 mm, as well as the Konkurs anti-tank missile system.

1st Infantry Division (1st Infantry “The Big Red One/The Bloody First” division)

The oldest division of the US Army still active today. Currently based in Kansas at Fort Riley. And it consists of - bingo! - from two armored brigades. And there is no third one - savings. Such is the infantry division.

It arose in 1917, was the first to arrive at the front of the First World War and began to fight the Germans. She was the first to land in North Africa during Operation Torch.” Then I visited Sicily. And in 1944, it landed like this: it was the First Infantry that got that very beach called Omaha Beach - because all the Marines butted heads with the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean, and ordinary infantry had to break onto the enemy shore. And they broke through, albeit with terrible losses.

Then the division repelled a German attack in the Ardennes, and ended the war in the west of the Czech Republic. Due to its heavy losses, it received the grim nickname The Big Dead One: the big dead one instead of the big red one, as well as the bloody, damn first one.

In the Cold War, the division almost clashed with the Soviets during the crisis with the construction of the Berlin Wall: the famous photos from Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie with American and Soviet armored vehicles pointing their guns at each other - this is just about them

Then there were Vietnam and Iraq, where the division fought very bravely. Well, during the occupation of Kosovo, three fighters managed to go very wrong

There the Serbs caught them, took away their uniforms and weapons and hung them in a museum in Belgrade - so that it would not be so offensive.

1st Infantry Division landing on Omaha Beach, 1944

In general, we say “First Infantry” - we remember Omaha Beach, Checkpoint Charlie” and the Serbs with slivovitz. Well, and the fact that, again, it is purely armored - despite the name.

OSHS 2022

OSHS from 2022.

M777 CH-47 Chinook HMMWV

Drop from a C-130 Hercules aircraft

Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division in battle. Operation Hawthorne, June 1966, South Vietnam

101st Air Assault Division

(101st Airborne (Air Assault) Division

)

• Division
  (
  “Gladiators”
  ) Alpha Company (
  A Company (“Slayers”) MRF
  )
• Bravo Company ( B Company ("Black Dragons")
  )
• Charlie Company ( C Company ("Spartans")
  )
• Headquarters and Support Company ("Sentries"
  )
• Band ( 101st Airborne Division Band ("Pride of the Eagle")
  )

1st Air Assault Brigade "Bastogne"

(
1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team ("Bastogne")
) ()

• Management (

Brigade Headquarters and Headquarters Company

) 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (
1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (“Bulldogs”)
) 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (
2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (“No Slack”)
) 1st Battalion 506th Infantry Regiment (
1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment (“Red Currahee”)
) 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Regiment (
1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Regiment (“Bandits”)
) 32nd Engineer Battalion (
326th Brigade Engineer Battalion ("Sapper Eagles")
426th
Brigade Support Battalion ("Taskmasters"
)

2nd Air Assault Brigade "Udar"

(
2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team ("Strike")
) ()

• Management (

Brigade Headquarters and Headquarters Company

) 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment (
1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment (“First Strike”)
) 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment (
2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment (“Strike Force”)
) 1st battalion 26th Infantry Regiment (
1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment (“Blue Spaders”)
) 1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry Regiment (
1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry Regiment (“Widowmakers”)
) 39th Engineer Battalion “Raptor” (
39th Brigade Engineer Battalion ("Raptor")
) 526th
Brigade Support Battalion ("Best by Performance"
)

3rd Air Assault Brigade "Rakkasan"

(
3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team ("Rakkasan")
) ()

• Management (

Brigade Headquarters and Headquarters Company

) 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment (
1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment (“Leader Rakkasans”)
) 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment (
3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment (“Iron Rakkasans”)
) 2nd battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment (
2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment (“White Currahee”)
) 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment (
1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry Regiment (“War Rakkasans”)
) 21st Engineer Battalion (
21st Engineer Battalion ("Rak Solid")
) 626th
Brigade Support Battalion ("Assurgam")
)

Divisional artillery

(
101st Airborne Division Artillery ("Guns of Glory")
) (•)

• Management (

Brigade Headquarters and Headquarters Company ("Headhunters")

) 2nd Battalion, 32nd Artillery Regiment (
2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery Regiment (“Proud Americans”)
) 1st Battalion, 320th Artillery Regiment (
1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment (“Top Guns”)
) 3 320th Field Artillery Regiment (
3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment (“Red Knights”)
)

101st Army Aviation Brigade

(
101st Combat Aviation Brigade ("Wings of Destiny")
) ()

• Management (

Headquarters and Headquarters Company ("Hell Cats")

) 2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment (
2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment (“Out Front”)
) 1st Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment (
1st Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment (“Expect No Mercy”)
) 5- 1st Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment (
5th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment (“Eagle Assault”)
) 6th Battalion
, 101st Aviation Regiment (General Support) (“Shadow of the Eagle”
) 96th
Aviation Support Battalion ("Troubleshooters"
)

101st Logistics Brigade

(
101st Sustainment Brigade ("Life Liners")
)

• Special Troops Battalion (

Special Troops Battalion ("Sustainers")

) 12th
Combat Sustainment Support Battalion ("Drive the Wedge"
)

Attached units:

• 716th Military Police Battalion ("Peacekeepers"), 16th Military Police Brigade
  )
• 2nd Battalion, 44th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment ( 2nd Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade
  )

OShS 82nd Airborne Division US Army[1][2]

• Division control battalion
  Brigade control and headquarters support department
• Brigade Headquarters Operations Section (Company A)
• Brigade Headquarters Intelligence Section (Company B)
• Divisional Signal Corps (Company C)
• Division orchestra
• Rota PDS

• 82nd (parachute landing) brigade (pdbr) logistics support
  [3]

• 4th Brigade Group of the 82nd Airborne Division (disbanded)

The 4th Brigade Group of the 82nd Airborne Division of standard strength was placed in reserve and disbanded at the end of 2013. The 4th Brigade Orb was completely disbanded, units of the 782nd Battalion (Logistics Support) were transferred to the remaining logistics support units.[ 4] In turn, the personnel of the disbanded 4th TB of the 73rd LBTP of the SV (due to the presence of parachute landing training in the reconnaissance tank units of the US Army) formed the backbone of the 2nd infantry battalion of the 501st LBTP of the SV (without equipment). The parachute battalions of the disbanded 4th brigade tactical group were assigned to the 2nd and 3rd BrTG divisions without changes in composition.

Vanat

The American command considered the most dangerous thing to be evacuating the old opornik and moving to a new one. But these stages passed without any problems or opposition. A new stronghold on the outskirts of the village of Vanat was assigned to the second platoon of Company C, starting on July 8. The platoon was ten men short of its full strength, but the fighters had powerful firepower. In addition to standard weapons, they had four armored Humvees with heavy-duty grenade launchers and heavy machine guns. In addition to this platoon, a squad of mortars (one each of 120 and 60 mm) and one crew of TOW ATGMs on a Humvee were assigned.” Also with the Americans came an Afghan army platoon of 24 soldiers with three instructors from the American Marines.

Mortar position in the village of Wanat, Afghanistan

Initially, it was assumed that the construction would be carried out by an Afghan contractor, but he did not have time to deliver equipment and people. The platoon was sent six members of the engineering battalion with a forklift and asked to build it themselves. The construction itself was greatly complicated by the lack of tools, materials, equipment and even fresh water. Delivery by land was hampered by the danger of mines - on the second day after the rush to Vanat, sappers were blown up on the road to the village (with one dead and four wounded), and there simply weren’t enough troops for airlift.”

The soldiers, who had only two weeks left before their shift, felt trapped. The day after their arrival, all the women and children disappeared from the village; the construction site was constantly being watched from afar by groups of young men.

Since the main stronghold was located in a lowland, a Topside observation post for nine soldiers was built a few tens of meters away on the nearest hill.

By July 13, only a small part of the work was completed. But the command was not particularly worried; the main threat was considered to be mortar and rocket attacks, and not direct attacks.

On the morning of that day, before dawn, the fighters, according to regulations, took up firing positions. Through night vision devices, the movement of a group of men on one of the neighboring hills was recorded. Shepherds do not move in groups at night. It was decided to bombard the hill with a TOW and a mortar. The fingers were already on the triggers, when suddenly the entire surrounding area, including the houses and mosque adjacent to the strong point, exploded with heavy fire.

The Taliban launched an attack on unfinished positions.

US landing in Grenada: “they almost “fucked” us”

It should not be argued that in the modern history of Russia there have been only failures in special operations - the notorious New Year's assault on Grozny (1994). As a result of rash decisions of military officials, many young men died.

The US Army and the CIA will not be an exception in such operations. Thus, in 1961, Cuban troops completely defeated the landing force under the command of the US CIA in the Bay of Cochinos. This defeat sobered the US leadership from the idea of ​​overthrowing the Castro regime.

There were other failures, although they did not have such a significant impact on the country’s politics...

In most American studies, Operation Ergent Fury in Grenada is presented as victorious. The then US President Reagan announced to the whole world that it was a brilliant campaign. Indeed, who can doubt, because the set goal was achieved - the ruling regime was overthrown, Cuban-Soviet influence was eliminated. No other result should have been expected - 9 thousand US paratroopers were opposed by only more than 1000 people, including military advisers, Cuban airfield builders and Grenada NRA fighters. The American landing also included special forces troops, the Delta squad, rangers, combat swimmers with aviation support.

The operation turned out to be far from what was said about it. Data about the results and failures of the special forces were hidden in every possible way, but they could not hide everything.

So, let's begin

The most important target of the first wave was Point Sea Lines International Airport. On October 25, 1983, a detachment of 500 Rangers began landing on an almost unarmed airfield

Seeing the landing, the Cuban builder took machine guns and opened fire on the landing party while still in the air.

It is possible that this landing would have been unexpected, but in the morning twilight there was a drop of Delta special forces. They used the method of a long high-altitude jump, hoping for secrecy. However, the Cuban sentry saw the parachutes and opened fire. As a result of this, the entire American detachment was pinned to the runway by machine gun fire and could not raise their heads all day. The reason was that the Americans were armed with 9mm pistols and silent submachine guns, which were only effective in close combat and could not compare with the Soviet AKM.

The main task of the special forces was to eliminate Cubans in a sleeping state, clearing a strip for further landing and landing of cargo. But the task turned out to be impossible. The only thing that saved Delta was that they started dropping out rangers and the heavy fire from attack aircraft and helicopters. Despite all this, the losses were decent - 6 killed and a dozen wounded.

Proof of these events is the videotape of an American who was then living in Grenada, who filmed how the Cubans were able to encircle Delta under air fire.

The special forces acted extremely unsuccessfully during the capture of Richmond Hill prison, where political prisoners and the British representative P. Scoon and his family were held.

2 dozen “seals” were sent to free the latter. During this, the swimmers came across machine gun fire from an armored personnel carrier with a Cuban crew. With their light weapons they were helpless. The only thing that saved them was that stormtroopers were called.

The Delta fighters completely lost the battle for the prison.

Six unmarked helicopters appeared near the target, and as soon as they hovered over it, NAR soldiers opened powerful machine-gun fire. The weather was good, there was excellent visibility, and the places were targeted. As a result, the special forces descending along the cables were shot in the air.

An ordinary American also captured footage of a burning US helicopter crashing to the ground.

The American landing party suffered losses in other places - during the capture of the radio station, during the sea landing and during reconnaissance at another airport - Perle.

The opinion of ordinary soldiers differed too much from the president’s statement. One of the rangers once said: “They almost “fucked” us.”

So in the West, US special forces are experiencing serious failures. However, this does not in any way affect their use during local wars. Their numbers, funding, special training and goals are constantly growing.

An excerpt characterizing the 82nd Airborne Division (USA)

- B...se...e...du...shka! - the drunk man sang, smiling happily and looking at Ilyin talking to the girl. Following Dunyasha, Alpatych approached Rostov, taking off his hat from afar. “I dare to bother you, your honor,” he said with respect, but with relative disdain for the youth of this officer and putting his hand in his bosom. “My lady, the daughter of General Chief Prince Nikolai Andreevich Bolkonsky, who died this fifteenth, being in difficulty due to the ignorance of these persons,” he pointed to the men, “asks you to come... would you like,” Alpatych said with a sad smile, “to leave a few, otherwise it’s not so convenient when... - Alpatych pointed to two men who were running around him from behind, like horseflies around a horse. - A!.. Alpatych... Eh? Yakov Alpatych!.. Important! forgive for Christ's sake. Important! Eh?.. – the men said, smiling joyfully at him. Rostov looked at the drunken old men and smiled. – Or perhaps this consoles your Excellency? - said Yakov Alpatych with a sedate look, pointing at the old people with his hand not tucked into his bosom. “No, there’s little consolation here,” Rostov said and drove off. - What's the matter? - he asked. “I dare to report to your excellency that the rude people here do not want to let the lady out of the estate and threaten to turn away the horses, so in the morning everything is packed and her ladyship cannot leave.” - Can't be! - Rostov screamed. “I have the honor to report to you the absolute truth,” Alpatych repeated. Rostov got off his horse and, handing it over to the messenger, went with Alpatych to the house, asking him about the details of the case. Indeed, yesterday’s offer of bread from the princess to the peasants, her explanation with Dron and the gathering spoiled the matter so much that Dron finally handed over the keys, joined the peasants and did not appear at Alpatych’s request, and that in the morning, when the princess ordered to lay money to go, the peasants came out in a large crowd to the barn and sent to say that they would not let the princess out of the village, that there was an order not to be taken out, and they would unharness the horses. Alpatych came out to them, admonishing them, but they answered him (Karp spoke most of all; Dron did not appear from the crowd) that the princess could not be released, that there was an order for that; but let the princess stay, and they will serve her as before and obey her in everything. At that moment, when Rostov and Ilyin galloped along the road, Princess Marya, despite the dissuading of Alpatych, the nanny and the girls, ordered the laying and wanted to go; but, seeing the galloping cavalrymen, they were mistaken for the French, the coachmen fled, and the crying of women arose in the house. - Father! dear father! “God sent you,” said tender voices, while Rostov walked through the hallway. Princess Marya, lost and powerless, sat in the hall while Rostov was brought to her. She did not understand who he was, and why he was, and what would happen to her. Seeing his Russian face and recognizing him from his entrance and the first words he spoke as a man of her circle, she looked at him with her deep and radiant gaze and began to speak in a voice that was broken and trembling with emotion. Rostov immediately imagined something romantic in this meeting. “A defenseless, grief-stricken girl, alone, left at the mercy of rude, rebellious men! And some strange fate pushed me here! - Rostov thought, listening to her and looking at her. - And what meekness, nobility in her features and expression! – he thought, listening to her timid story. When she spoke about the fact that all this happened the day after her father’s funeral, her voice trembled. She turned away and then, as if afraid that Rostov would take her words for a desire to pity him, she looked at him inquiringly and fearfully. Rostov had tears in his eyes. Princess Marya noticed this and looked gratefully at Rostov with that radiant look of hers, which made one forget the ugliness of her face. “I can’t express, princess, how happy I am that I came here by chance and will be able to show you my readiness,” said Rostov, getting up. “Please go, and I answer you with my honor that not a single person will dare to make trouble for you, if you only allow me to escort you,” and, bowing respectfully, as they bow to ladies of royal blood, he headed to the door. By the respectful tone of his tone, Rostov seemed to show that, despite the fact that he would consider his acquaintance with her a blessing, he did not want to take advantage of the opportunity of her misfortune to get closer to her. Princess Marya understood and appreciated this tone. “I am very, very grateful to you,” the princess told him in French, “but I hope that all this was just a misunderstanding and that no one is to blame for it.” “The princess suddenly began to cry. “Excuse me,” she said. Rostov, frowning, bowed deeply again and left the room. - Well, honey? No, brother, my pink beauty, and their name is Dunyasha... - But, looking at Rostov’s face, Ilyin fell silent. He saw that his hero and commander was in a completely different way of thinking. Rostov looked back angrily at Ilyin and, without answering him, quickly walked towards the village. “I’ll show them, I’ll give them a hard time, the robbers!” - he said to himself. Alpatych, at a swimming pace, so as not to run, barely caught up with Rostov at a trot. – What decision did you decide to make? - he said, catching up with him. Rostov stopped and, clenching his fists, suddenly moved menacingly towards Alpatych. - Solution? What's the solution? Old bastard! - he shouted at him. -What were you watching? A? Men are rebelling, but you can’t cope? You yourself are a traitor. I know you, I’ll skin you all... - And, as if afraid to waste his reserve of ardor in vain, he left Alpatych and quickly walked forward. Alpatych, suppressing the feeling of insult, kept up with Rostov at a floating pace and continued to communicate his thoughts to him. He said that the men were stubborn, that at the moment it was unwise to oppose them without having a military command, that it would not be better to send for a command first. “I’ll give them a military command... I’ll fight them,” Nikolai said senselessly, suffocating from unreasonable animal anger and the need to vent this anger. Not realizing what he would do, unconsciously, with a quick, decisive step, he moved towards the crowd. And the closer he moved to her, the more Alpatych felt that his unreasonable act could produce good results. The men of the crowd felt the same, looking at his fast and firm gait and decisive, frowning face. After the hussars entered the village and Rostov went to the princess, there was confusion and discord in the crowd. Some men began to say that these newcomers were Russians and how they would not be offended by the fact that they did not let the young lady out. Drone was of the same opinion; but as soon as he expressed it, Karp and other men attacked the former headman. – How many years have you been eating the world? - Karp shouted at him. - It’s all the same to you! You dig up the little jar, take it away, do you want to destroy our houses or not? - It was said that there should be order, no one should leave the houses, so as not to take out any blue gunpowder - that’s all it is! - shouted another. “There was a line for your son, and you probably regretted your hunger,” the little old man suddenly spoke quickly, attacking Dron, “and you shaved my Vanka.” Oh, we're going to die! - Then we’ll die! “I am not a refuser from the world,” said Dron. - He’s not a refusenik, he’s grown a belly!.. Two long men had their say. As soon as Rostov, accompanied by Ilyin, Lavrushka and Alpatych, approached the crowd, Karp, putting his fingers behind his sash, slightly smiling, came forward. The drone, on the contrary, entered the back rows, and the crowd moved closer together. - Hey! Who is your headman here? - Rostov shouted, quickly approaching the crowd. - The headman then? What do you need?.. – asked Karp. But before he could finish speaking, his hat flew off and his head snapped to the side from a strong blow. - Hats off, traitors! - Rostov’s full-blooded voice shouted. -Where is the headman? – he shouted in a frantic voice. “The headman, the headman is calling... Dron Zakharych, you,” submissive voices were heard here and there, and hats began to be taken off their heads. “We can’t rebel, we keep order,” said Karp, and several voices from behind suddenly spoke up at the same moment: “Like the old people grumbled, there are a lot of you in charge...” “Talk?.. Riot!.. Robbers!” Traitors! - Rostov screamed senselessly, in a voice that was not his own, grabbing Karp by the yurot. - Knit him, knit him! - he shouted, although there was no one to knit him except Lavrushka and Alpatych. Lavrushka, however, ran up to Karp and grabbed his hands from behind. – Will you order our people to call from under the mountain? - he shouted. Alpatych turned to the men, calling two of them by name to mate Karp. The men obediently emerged from the crowd and began to loosen their belts. - Where is the headman? - Rostov shouted. The drone, with a frowning and pale face, emerged from the crowd. -Are you the headman? Knit, Lavrushka! - Rostov shouted, as if this order could not meet with obstacles. And indeed, two more men began to tie Dron, who, as if helping them, took off the kushan and gave it to them. “And you all listen to me,” Rostov turned to the men: “Now march home, and so that I don’t hear your voice.” “Well, we didn’t do any harm.” That means we are just being stupid. They just made nonsense... I told you there was a mess,” voices were heard reproaching each other. “I told you so,” said Alpatych, coming into his own. - This is not good, guys! “Our stupidity, Yakov Alpatych,” answered the voices, and the crowd immediately began to disperse and scatter throughout the village. The two tied men were taken to the manor's courtyard. Two drunk men followed them. - Oh, I’ll look at you! - said one of them, turning to Karp. “Is it possible to talk to gentlemen like that?” What did you think? “Fool,” confirmed the other, “really, a fool!” Two hours later the carts stood in the courtyard of Bogucharov’s house. The men were briskly carrying out and placing the master's things on the carts, and Dron, at the request of Princess Marya, was released from the locker where he had been locked, standing in the courtyard, giving orders to the men. “Don’t put it in such a bad way,” said one of the men, a tall man with a round smiling face, taking the box from the maid’s hands. - It also costs money. Why do you throw it like that or half a rope - and it will rub. I don't like it that way. And so that everything is fair, according to the law. Just like that, under the matting and covering it with hay, that’s what’s important. Love! “Look for books, books,” said another man, who was taking out Prince Andrei’s library cabinets. - Don't cling! It's heavy, guys, the books are great! - Yes, they wrote, they didn’t walk! – the tall, round-faced man said with a significant wink, pointing to the thick lexicons lying on top. Rostov, not wanting to impose his acquaintance on the princess, did not go to her, but remained in the village, waiting for her to leave. Having waited for Princess Marya's carriages to leave the house, Rostov sat on horseback and accompanied her on horseback to the path occupied by our troops, twelve miles from Bogucharov. In Yankov, at the inn, he said goodbye to her respectfully, allowing himself to kiss her hand for the first time. “Aren’t you ashamed,” he answered Princess Marya, blushing, to the expression of gratitude for her salvation (as she called his action), “every police officer would have done the same.” If only we had to fight with the peasants, we would not have allowed the enemy so far away,” he said, ashamed of something and trying to change the conversation. “I’m only happy that I had the opportunity to meet you.” Farewell, princess, I wish you happiness and consolation and wish to meet you under happier conditions. If you don't want to make me blush, please don't thank me. But the princess, if she did not thank him in more words, thanked him with the whole expression of her face, beaming with gratitude and tenderness. She couldn't believe him, that she had nothing to thank him for. On the contrary, what was certain for her was that if he had not existed, she would probably have died from both the rebels and the French; that, in order to save her, he exposed himself to the most obvious and terrible dangers; and what was even more certain was that he was a man with a high and noble soul, who knew how to understand her situation and grief. His kind and honest eyes with tears appearing on them, while she herself, crying, talked to him about her loss, did not leave her imagination. When she said goodbye to him and was left alone, Princess Marya suddenly felt tears in her eyes, and here, not for the first time, she was presented with a strange question: does she love him? On the way further to Moscow, despite the fact that the princess’s situation was not happy, Dunyasha, who was riding with her in the carriage, more than once noticed that the princess, leaning out of the carriage window, was smiling joyfully and sadly at something. “Well, what if I loved him? - thought Princess Marya. Ashamed as she was to admit to herself that she was the first to love a man who, perhaps, would never love her, she consoled herself with the thought that no one would ever know this and that it would not be her fault if she remained without anyone for the rest of her life. speaking of loving the one she loved for the first and last time. Sometimes she remembered his views, his participation, his words, and it seemed to her that happiness was not impossible. And then Dunyasha noticed that she was smiling and looking out the carriage window. “And he had to come to Bogucharovo, and at that very moment! - thought Princess Marya. “And his sister should have refused Prince Andrei!” “And in all this, Princess Marya saw the will of Providence. The impression made on Rostov by Princess Marya was very pleasant. When he remembered about her, he became cheerful, and when his comrades, having learned about his adventure in Bogucharovo, joked to him that, having gone for hay, he picked up one of the richest brides in Russia, Rostov became angry. He was angry precisely because the thought of marrying the meek Princess Marya, who was pleasant to him and with a huge fortune, came into his head more than once against his will. For himself personally, Nikolai could not wish for a better wife than Princess Marya: marrying her would make the countess - his mother - happy, and would improve his father’s affairs; and even - Nikolai felt it - would have made Princess Marya happy. But Sonya? And this word? And this is why Rostov got angry when they joked about Princess Bolkonskaya.

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Oshs 82nd division in 1989.

Oshs 82nd division since 2014.

Soldiers of the 82nd Division before being loaded into helicopters during an operation in Musa Qala, Afghanistan, 2007.

82nd Airborne Division

(
82nd Airborne Division
)

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• Division
  Headquarters
  and Headquarters Battalion
  Headquarters
  and Headquarters
  Company
• Operations Company
  _
• Intelligence Company ( Intelligence and Sustainment Company
  )
• Signal Company ( Division Signal Company
  )
• Band ( 82nd Airborne Division Band
  )
• Airborne Training Center ( US Army Advanced Airborne School
  )
• 49th Press Service ( 49th Public Affairs Detachment
  )

Combat and numerical strength

Since 2006, the 82nd Airborne Division has been completely transferred to a modular tactical structure. The main field units in this case are brigade tactical groups (Task Force), the composition of which can vary depending on the specific combat mission.

A number of auxiliary units (artillery units, military police, etc.), etc., during the reorganization were allocated into separate ground forces brigades, units and units of which in the combat area are operationally subordinate to the headquarters of the 82nd Airborne Division (18th artillery brigade MLRS SV, etc.). During the reorganization of the division's units, the 82nd Airborne Division was temporarily strengthened by the fourth brigade tactical group (BrTG).

The current tactical (field) composition of the 82nd Airborne Division includes:

• division control and headquarters (paratrooper) units (engineering, divisional communications, military police company, military band, etc.)
• a separate detachment (battalion) of the Special Forces of the SV as a separate reconnaissance battalion (orb) of the division
• 4 brigade tactical groups, each consisting of: 2 parachute battalions (PDB)
• 1 light tank battalion (armored cavalry squadron in US Army terms)
• 1 (airborne) battalion of 105 mm M119 howitzers
• 1 logistics battalion

1st Cavalry "First Team" division

This division has such a combat path and memeticity that it is enough for a dozen formations. She symbolically inherits the old American cavalry - which fought with the British and Canadians, chased Indians in the West, fought on the fields of the Civil War, and so on. However, at the same time, the American cavalry is inherited by the American reconnaissance battalions, which are in every brigade, and therefore have the honorable right to wear spurs and Stetson-style hats with their uniforms.” So it's complicated.

Now the division is located at the Fort Hood base in the same Texas, but in its very center. With its three armored brigades, it is the only purely armored division of the US Army. Before this, the first cavalry in its long history managed to be a cavalry, infantry and airmobile unit itself - a unique case in world history.

It all started in 1921, when three cavalry regiments with a rich history were brought together into a single division.

The division was urgently converted into an infantry division. In this capacity, she butted heads with the Japanese - first on various small islands, then in the Philippines. As a result, the division was the first to enter Tokyo after the surrender of Japan and began to diligently occupy it.

Then the 1st Cavalry found itself at the Pusan ​​beachhead in Korea, where it desperately held off North Korean attacks. She was the first to break into Pyongyang during the counter-offensive of UN forces. And she was robbed by the Chinese People's Volunteers - so epically that she became the subject of banter for the rest of the army for a long time. Even her yellow emblem was damaged, the color of which began to be associated with some physical manifestations of very strong fear. They suspected that the horseless cavalrymen managed to lose their battle flag during the raking.

But in Vietnam, the division, which became airmobile, more than restored its reputation. In most cases, if you see American soldiers in Vietnam on helicopters or next to helicopters, it is the First Cavalry. Scene from Apocalypse Now” with Wagner and the smell of napalm - it’s them again. The flying cavalrymen plowed the whole war inside and out, took part in all major operations and suffered the heaviest losses of all divisions - except for the Marines, because they are absolutely crazy.”

1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam

We say “First Cavalry” - we remember Vietnam, helicopters, Stetson” and the smell of napalm in the morning. And the fact is that it is now the most armored.

The Second World War

On March 25, 1942, the unit reorganized in Louisiana as an infantry division under the command of Omar Bradley. In August 1942, the latter, appointed to another position, was replaced by Brigadier General

Matthew B. Ridgway.

The division reorganized and became the first American airborne division. On August 15, it was given the name 82nd Airborne Division. In October 1942, she moved to Fort Bragg in North Carolina. That same month, the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment integrated into the 82nd, as well as the 505th Parachute and 325th Airborne Infantry Regiments, carried by gliders.

The division reports to the XVIIIth American Airborne Corps.

North Africa

On 10 May 1943, the division, stationed in New England, was transferred to Casablanca in Morocco and then moved by train or truck to Tunisia.

It is from the city of Kairouan, located south of Tunisia, that the 82nd embarks on its first combat jump: the invasion of Sicily.

Participation in the Italian campaign

On July 9, 1943, the 505th Regiment of the Division was commanded by Colonel Gavin and on July 11, the 504th parachute near Gela as part of Operation Husky, the name of the landing codes in Sicily.

10% of the 505th Aircraft Regiment were destroyed by friendly fire from US Navy gunners who mistook them for German aircraft.

Additionally, due to poor visual cues and wind speeds of over 50 km/h, two battalions landed over 50 km from the planned landing zone, while the third battalion was dispersed over 80 km.

Despite these poor landing conditions, the paratroopers managed to organize themselves to slow the deployment of German units and thus allow the boat-borne troops to gain a foothold on the landing beaches.

In September 1943, 2,500 men of the division, under orders from Colonel Gavin, made a night jump into the Gulf of Salerno as part of Operation Avalanche.

October 1, 1943, division between to Naples.

Battle of Normandy

In April 1944, the division was transferred to England in preparation for Operation Overlord. It then made up the 505th, 507th and 508th Parachute Infantry Regiments ( Parachute Infantry Regiment

) - and the 504th, recovering from losses in Italy - the 325th Airborne Regiment (
glider infantry regiment
), three field artillery battalions and one anti-aircraft artillery battalion.

On the evening of June 5, 1944, scouts ( pathfinders

) of the 82nd Airborne Division, equipped with radios and media tags, became the first Allied soldiers to take off from RAF North Witham, and soon after were the first to touch French soil to mark the landing zones of two airborne divisions: the 82nd Airborne Division. th and 101st.

Soon, on the night of 5–6 June, the 82nd and 101st jumps on the western flank of the planned landing beaches at the beginning of the Cotentin Peninsula. A detachment of the 82nd Regiment captures Sainte-Mère-Eglise.

Operation Market Garden

In September 1944, on the orders of General Gavin, the youngest American general in the conflict, nicknamed "The Jumping General"

or
"Slim Jim"
- the division participated in Operation
Market Garden
, the largest airborne operation of the war. His mission is to capture the Grave and Nijmegen bridges.

Battle for the Bulge

Since January 1945, the division had armored units.

In reserve in the Reims area, the division is deployed towards the Belgian Ardennes, and from 16 December 1944 until the end of January 1945 it is deployed in the Stavelot area. She took part in the fights of Lee Gleize and Stoumont.

1945: last months of the world conflict

Cologne, April 4, 1945.

In January 1945, it equipped an armored personnel carrier equipped with the M4 Sherman, M36 Jackson, M10 Wolverine, M7 Priest, M8 Greyhound.

In February 1945, she fights in the Ruhr and then returns to France to reform.

In April 1945, he was on the Elbe in Germany and linked up with the Red Army.

In early May 1945, he liberated the Neuengamme camp and most of its commands.

After Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945, she was sent to Berlin.

During the entire world conflict, the division regrets the losses of 1,619 people killed, 6,560 wounded and 332 died from wounds.

Links

• 	AND	34th Infantry • 35th Infantry • 36th Infantry • 38th Infantry • 40th Infantry • 42nd Infantry • 63rd Infantry
  	IN	75th Infantry • 76th Infantry • 77th Infantry • 78th Infantry • 83rd Infantry • 84th Infantry • 86th Infantry
  	AND	87th Infantry • 90th Infantry • 91st Infantry • 94th Infantry • 98th Infantry • 104th Infantry • 108th Infantry
  	Z	82nd Airborne • 101st Airborne • 10th Mountain
  	AND	1st Armored • 1st Cavalry
  	AND	80th training • 95th training • 100th training

  Infantry	• • • • • • • • • • • 12th “Philippine” • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 39th “Delta” • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 100 • 102 • 103 • 104 • 106 • 108 • 119 • 130 • 141 • 157 • Hawaiian • Panama Canal
  Cavalry	• • • • • • • • • • • • •
  Mechanized	1st mechanized • 3rd mechanized
  Airborne	• • • • • • • • • 82 • • 100 • 101 • 108 • 135
  Air assault (airmobile)	11th Airmobile • 101st Air Assault
  Lungs	10th mountain • 25th easy • 71st easy • 89th easy

2nd Infantry "Indianhead" division

It also arose in 1917. She fought on the Western Front of World War I. Then I landed on Omaha Beach... but a day later. Then it advanced in France, retreated in the Ardennes and advanced again all the way to Czechoslovakia.

And then the division was the first to arrive to the aid of the Busan perimeter, which was already ready to break through, from which the Indian Heads broke through first and rushed to the Chinese border. They rolled away from it under the blows of the Chinese people's volunteers and managed to get surrounded - from where they barely escaped thanks to the desperate work of the artillerymen. Then they butted heads with the Chinese in the most difficult positional battles in the spirit of the First World War - in positions that received the eloquent names of the Bloody Ridge and the Ridge of Woe.

Then something strange happened. In 1965, the Second Infantry and the First Cavalry... changed their names. Yes, yes, in fact, the current First Cavalry is the former Second Infantry, retrained for air mobility. Well, the Second Infantry is the former First Cavalry, which at that time was in Korea. It’s just that the cavalry name was more suitable for air mobility.

Be that as it may, the Second Infantry spent the entire Vietnam War in Korea. And (suddenly!) he sits there to this day, protecting the peace of the South Koreans from the North. The division's base is Camp Red Cloud in the wonderfully named Korean city of Uijeongbu. It consists of two brigades of Strykers, to which one of a dozen armored brigades from other divisions is added on rotation. Moreover, the American division also includes the 16th Mechanized Brigade of the South Korean Army.

2nd Infantry Division in Korea 1950

We say “Second Infantry” - we remember Korea. And again Korea. And long-suffering strikers."

Pedigree and honors

Origin

• Formed 5 August 1917 into the National Army as the headquarters of the 157th Field Artillery Brigade and assigned to the 82nd Division.
• Organized September 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia.
• Discharged May 23, 1919 at Camp Upton, New York.
• Reinstated June 24, 1921, in the Organized Reserve and assigned to the 82nd Division.
• Organized in January 1922 in the area of ​​the 4th Corps.
• Redesignated 13 February 1942 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 82nd Artillery Division.
• Called to active duty March 25, 1942 and reorganized at Camp Clarborne, Louisiana.
• Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 82nd Airborne Division Artillery.

(Organized Reserves renamed Organized Reserve Corps on March 25, 1948)

• Withdrawn November 15, 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and transferred to the Regular Army.
• Inactivated June 15, 2006 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
• Activated October 16, 2014 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Campaign credit

• First World War: St. Michel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918
• World War II: Sicily; Naples-Foggia; Normandy (with arrowhead); Rhineland (with arrowhead); Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
• Armed Forces Expeditions: Dominican Republic; Grenada
• Southwest Asia: Saudi Defense; Liberation and defense of Kuwait
• War on Terror: Campaigns TBA

Note: The official Army Pedigree, released February 15, 2015, lists "Campaigns to Be Determined." Estimate that the unit will be eligible for campaign credit for two campaigns based on deployment dates.

Decorations

• Presidential block Quote (Army), Embroidered banner STE. MERE EGLISE
• Unit Insignia (Army), embroidered ribbon SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991.
• French Croix de Guerre with Palm Tree, World War II, Streamer STE embroidery. MERE EGLISE
• French Croix de Guerre cross with palm tree, World War II, COTENTIN ribbon embroidery
• French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourrager
• Military William Order (knight fourth class) for NIDJMEGEN 1944
• Netherlands orange lace
• Belgian Furrager 1940 Indicated in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for actions in the Ardennes.
• Indicated in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for actions in Belgium and Germany.

Notes

1. [www.bragg.army.mil/82nd/Pages/82ndUnits.aspx Fort Bragg]. Bragg.army.mil (16 July 2013). Retrieved February 6, 2014.
2. Brooks, Drew.
   [www.fayobserver.com/military/article_4624b0ef-8af4-57e0-bd69-20b42b499db3.html?mode=story 82nd Airborne Division's 4th Brigade Combat Team headed to Afghanistan].
   Fayetteville Observer
   (22 January 2014). Retrieved February 6, 2014.
3. [www.bragg.army.mil/82sb/SBHOME.html 82nd Sustainment Brigade]. 82nd Sustainment Brigade. Retrieved March 16, 2008. [web.archive.org/web/20080401040916/www.bragg.army.mil/82sb/SBHOME.html Archived from the original on April 1, 2008].
4. [www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Catalog/HeraldryMulti.aspx?CategoryId=4403&grp=2&menu=Uniformed%20Services Coat of Arms]. Tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil (August 1, 2006). Retrieved July 21, 2014.