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General Joseph Swing’s rowdy paratroopers of the 11th Airborne Division — nicknamed the “Angels” fought in some of the war’s most dramatic campaigns, from bloody skirmishes in Leyte’s...
While covering the history of this mighty airborne division from 1943 through today, Jeremy delves in to the legacy of the 11th Airborne Division and the impact its Angels have had on...
Please enjoy this short, yet powerful video that follows a timeline of the 11th Airborne's history from 1943 to our modern Arctic Angels based in Alaska. In the words of one of our...
The 11th Airborne Division ("Arctic Angels" [1]) is a United States Army combined forces between air assault infantry and airborne forces based in Alaska. Currently, this unit specializes in air assault and airborne operations, cold-weather warfare, combined arms, maneuver warfare, and urban warfare.
The 11th Airborne division, nicknamed "The Angels," was activated at Camp Mackall, N.C.., Feb. 25, 1943, under the command of Maj. Gen. Joseph Swing. After almost a year training, in ground and Airborne tactics, the division was tested for overseas movement and in May 1944, sailed from San Francisco for New Guinea.
Parachute drops on Sicily, the Normandy coast for D-Day and into the Netherlands for Market Garden. But, in the Pacific, Joseph Swing’s 11th Airborne Division – nicknamed the Angels – were making combat drops.
With the 82nd and 101st ABDs already established, on November 24, 1942 the War Department authorized the creation of a third airborne division to be numbered the 11th under forty-seven-year-old then-Brig. Gen. Joseph May Swing.
