Army and Military Emblem & Logo T-shirts
    82nd Airborne Division Shoulder Sleeve Insignia

The 82nd Airborne Division is the oldest airborne division in the U.S. Army. It had been reorganized from an infantry division in the early days of World War II and had undergone extensive training stateside. Units from the division had seen combat in North Africa, Sicily and Italy during the early phases of the war in the Mediterranean. In November 1943 the 82nd was recalled from Italy, where the division's paratroopers had made a parachute assault on the beachhead near Salerno.