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WWII paratrooper, 82nd Airborne legend dies

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Ret. 82nd Airborne 1SG passes at 102.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/07/08/wwii-paratrooper-82nd-airborne-legend-dies/


One of the original members of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment — and one of fewer than 2,800 All American paratroopers to have made all four World War II combat jumps with the 82nd Airborne Division — has died.
Retired 1st Sgt. Harold Eatman was 102. He died Friday at home in Matthews, North Carolina, the 82nd Airborne Division announced this weekend.
“Harold Eatman was among the generation of All American paratroopers who defeated Nazism, liberated Europe, and inspired many generations of paratroopers to follow,” said Lt. Col. Joe Buccino, spokesman for the 82nd Airborne, in a statement. “We always say that when you wear the Double A patch, you walk among legends. One of those legends has passed.”
Eatman was one of fewer than 2,800 paratroopers to have made all four World War II combat jumps with the 82nd Airborne Division — in Sicily, Salerno, Normandy and Holland. Fewer than 16 now remain living, according to the 82nd Airborne.

How ever did you walk in life with clanking brass ones that big?
RIP, Airborne.
 
The greatest generation! They saved the world specifically Europe from unbelievable horrors.
RIP!
 
Polar Bum said:
Ret. 82nd Airborne 1SG passes at 102.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/07/08/wwii-paratrooper-82nd-airborne-legend-dies/


One of the original members of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment — and one of fewer than 2,800 All American paratroopers to have made all four World War II combat jumps with the 82nd Airborne Division — has died.
Retired 1st Sgt. Harold Eatman was 102. He died Friday at home in Matthews, North Carolina, the 82nd Airborne Division announced this weekend.
“Harold Eatman was among the generation of All American paratroopers who defeated Nazism, liberated Europe, and inspired many generations of paratroopers to follow,” said Lt. Col. Joe Buccino, spokesman for the 82nd Airborne, in a statement. “We always say that when you wear the Double A patch, you walk among legends. One of those legends has passed.”
Eatman was one of fewer than 2,800 paratroopers to have made all four World War II combat jumps with the 82nd Airborne Division — in Sicily, Salerno, Normandy and Holland. Fewer than 16 now remain living, according to the 82nd Airborne.

How ever did you walk in life with clanking brass ones that big?
RIP, Airborne.
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Rest easy in Valhalla warrior.

Truly impressive.
 
I attended the funeral a year+ ago of a hero who had been both a "Screaming Eagle" and 82nd Airborne (during WWII, brief time in civilian life, and then return to the Army).

Yes, the Greatest Generation.
 
Til the Green, brother.
 
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