Airborne forces are military units set up to be moved by aircraft and "dropped" into battle, typically by parachute. Thus, they can be placed behind enemy lines, and have the capability to deploy almost anywhere with little warning. The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division of the United States Army, specializing in parachute assault operations. It was organized in August 1917 originally as the 82nd Division of the United States Army and served with distinction on the Western Front in the final months of World War I. Since its initial members came from all 48 states, the division acquired the nickname All-American, which is the basis for its famed "AA" shoulder patch. The division later served in World War II where, in August 1942, it was reconstituted as the first airborne division of the U.S. Army and fought in numerous campaigns during the war.—Wikipedia
Field desk of an American journalist or war correspondent during World War II. Best known amoung them was Ernie Pyle, notable for the columns he wrote as a roving, human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941. He lent a distinctive, folksy style of human-interest stories to his wartime reports from the European theater (1942–44) and Pacific theater (1945). Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his newspaper accounts of "dogface" infantry soldiers from a first-person perspective. He was killed by enemy fire during the Battle of Okinawa in April 1945.—Wikipedia
