The 17th Airborne Division, "The Golden Talons", was an airborne infantry division of the United States Army during World War II, commanded by Major General William M. Miley.
Members of the 466th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion prepare for Operation Varsity.
C-47 transport aircraft drop hundreds of paratroopers as part of Operation Varsity.
Churchill tanks of the 6th Guards Tank Brigade carrying American paratroopers of the 17th Airborne Division, Germany, 29 March 1945.
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The First Allied Airborne Army was an Allied formation formed on 2 August 1944 by the order of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force.
17th Airborne Division (United States)
…Neptune. In Britain, the 17th came under the command of Maj. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's XVIII Airborne Corps, a part of Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton's First Allied Airborne Army. It was not chosen to participate in Operation Market Garden, the airborne landings in the Netherlands, as Allied planners believed it had arrived too…
Lieutenant General Lewis Brereton
American paratroopers of the First Allied Airborne Army, 17 September 1944
Operational Channels, First Allied Airborne Army, 28 November 1944.