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101st Airborne Div.
@101stAASLTDIV
The official Twitter page for the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Screaming Eagles, stationed @FortCampbell. Appearance here does not = DoD endorsement.
Jun 5, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The fate of the free peoples of Earth is at stake. The eve of the largest amphibious invasion in human history.

These are the words the troops heard that night. Hear Eisenhower’s words with us again. #DDay77

“Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!

1/ You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months.

The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

2/
Dec 22, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Bastogne, Belgium. 1944. Walk with us this morning.

We're on the lines with the 101st Airborne. Encircled and outgunned, holding Bastogne. Numb hands and feet, freezing in the dirty snow.

The Germans expect surrender.

They expect wrong.

#battleofthebulge We're at Pvt. 1st Class Leo Palma's foxhole when the Germans arrive. He describes them as warm, bundled up in overcoats. Leather boots shined and oiled. A world apart from him.

They're waving white flags. They want to talk.
Dec 12, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The single biggest loss of life in the 101st Airborne wasn't during World War II. It wasn't during combat at all. It happened in Gander, Newfoundland, 35 years ago today, in the blink of an eye. 1/8 248 Soldiers and eight crew members died when Arrow Air flight 1285 crashed just after takeoff. They were returning from a deployment. They were coming home. 2/8