Thomas J. H. Trapnell
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Thomas John Hall "Trap" Trapnell was a United States Army lieutenant general. He was a career officer who served in World War II and the Korean War. Trapnell survived the Bataan Death March and the si
Trapnell as 4th Armored Division Commander c. 1955
West Point football portrait of Trapnell, circa 1926
Grave at West Point cemetery
The 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment is a regiment of the 101st Airborne Division.
Thomas J. H. Trapnell
…Kentucky. He graduated from the Army War College in 1951. In 1951, Trapnell was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and placed in command of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team. In November of that year, the 187th made a "simulated combat drop", landing 3,000 troops and 100,000 lbs of equipment in South…
403rd TCW C-119s drop the 187th RCT over Taegu, South Korea, November 1952.
Shoulder patch for the 187th Regimental Combat Team (Airborne)
U.S. soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), scan the ridgeline for enemy forces during Operation Anaconda, 4 March 2002.
Soldiers of 3rd Battalion run to a Black Hawk helicopter after conducting a search for weapons caches in Albu Issa, Iraq.