At dawn on 23 February 1945, paratroopers of the 11th Airborne Division came down on Los Banos and freed 2,147 civilian internees from a Japanese camp. It remains one of the most famous raids in...
The 13th Airborne Division was activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Friday, 13 August 1943, about as fitting a start as a division numbered 13 could get. Its shoulder patch had been approved...