Major General William Power Burnham was a United States Army officer. During World War I, he was the commander of the 82nd Division, now the 82nd Airborne Division.
William P. Burnham, pictured here as a major general and commander of the 82nd Division in October 1918.
Major General William P. Burnham, commanding the 82nd Division, shaking the hand of the mayor of Toul, France, mid-1918.
The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division of the United States Army specializing in parachute assault operations into hostile areas with a U.S. Department of Defense mandate to be "on-call to fight any time, anywhere" at "the knife's edge of technology and readiness." Primarily based at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, the 82nd Airborne Division is part of the XVIII Airborne Corps. The 82nd Airborne Division is the U.S. Army's most strategically mobile division.
82nd Airborne Division
Review of the 328th Infantry Regiment at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Georgia, 1 February 1918
Doughboys of Company B, 328th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Division, serving in a front line trench, France, 1 July 1918
328th Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Division advances in preparation to capture Hill 223 on 7 October 1918.
