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Vietnam POW presents prison garb to Military Museum

In U. S. Army, Vietnam War on April 16, 2012 at 4:38 am

Capt. Luis Chirichigno, Ret., second from left, presents Tami Cash, executive director of the Military Heritage & Aviation Museum in Punta Gorda, Fla. with the POW garb he wore in North Vietnam’s infamous “Hanoi Hilton” during his three-and-a-half years in captivity. Looking on is retired Brig. Gen. Jim Shelton, left, holding Chirichigno’s Ho Chi Minh sandals, and retired Maj. Gen. Rufus Lazzell, both on the museum’s board of directors. Sun photo by Don Moore

Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Sunday, April 15, 2007

Capt. Luis Chirichigno was piloting an Army Cobra attack helicopter high above a couple of low-flying observation copters eight miles south of Duc Lap, South Vietnam, on Nov. 2, 1969. What happened next would make this Peruvian-born American chopper pilot a POW for the next 3 1/2 years. Read the rest of this entry »

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Pvt. Dan Hartnett jumped with 82nd Airborne in largest action in World War II

In U.S. Army Airborne, World War II on March 26, 2012 at 4:38 am

Dan Hartnett of the Sanctuary condominiums in Cape Haze, Fla. looks at a newspaper story and map his mother saved for him about the largest airborne action in World War II that he took part in as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division. Sun photo by Don Moore

“WITH AMERICAN AIRBORNE FORCES, in Germany, March 24, 1945 — The greatest single airborne operation in all history was successfully launched east of the Rhine shortly before noon today by cooperating British and American forces. Read the rest of this entry »

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Pfc. James Johnson protected an Atomic Bomb during war games at Ft. Polk

In Cold War, U. S. Army on June 22, 2011 at 4:38 am

Pfc. James Johnson was a member of the U.S. Army Honor Guard shown marching through the front gate at the Fontainebleau, Napoleon's summer chateau, for a ceremony of some kind. Photo provided

When James Johnson joined the 82nd Airborne Division, an elite fighting force, in the fall of 1955 as a 20-year-old soldier he took part in one of the largest ground maneuvers the Army ever staged in the United States.

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82nd Airborne was still an elite outfit in ’55 despite the fact there was no war

In U.S. Army Airborne on May 30, 2011 at 4:38 am

Members of the 82nd Airborne fill the sky over Fort Bragg, N.C., headquarters for the elite Army outfit, when 2nd Lt. Randy White of Port Charlotte, Fla. served with the 325th Regiment. Photo provided

When Randy White went into the Army and eventually joined the 325th Paratroop Regiment in 1955 his unit was a far cry from the one that flew into Normandy, France in gliders on D-Day to fight the Germans.

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He was a peacetime warrior in the 82nd Airborne in 1955

In Cold War, U. S. Army on April 27, 2011 at 4:38 am

Lou Drendel of Venice, Fla. became a member of the 82nd Airborne at age 18 in 1955. He made 41 jumps but never left Fort Bragg. Photo provided

Long before he joined the 82nd Airborne Division as a peacetime warrior in the mid-1950s, Lou Drendel of Venice was fascinated with things military. It began when he was a kid and his father built balsa wood airplane models for him. Read the rest of this entry »

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He served with 82nd Airborne and 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam War

In Army, Vietnam War on October 18, 2010 at 4:38 am

This was Pvt. Charlie Householder after he graduated from Jump School at Fort Benning, Ga. in 1953. He was just graduated from high school and was 18 years old. Photo provided

Charlie Householder served in Vietnam in 1969 as a Platoon Sergeant. with the 82nd Airborne Division at first and end up in the 25th Infantry Division in ‘Nam. He retired a decade later as a 1st Sergeant with the 82nd at Fort Bragg, N.C.

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