6/8/2023 0 Comments 1st battle groupInto Turkey during the exercise DEEP FURROW in September. In Spain, and airborne units from the 8th Division also parachuted Troops from the division and Spanish Forces. SOUTHERNĪRROW, conducted in May, was one of the largest joint-service airborneĪ joint exercise, PATHFINDER EXPRESS, was held in 1967 which involved The most important events in 1966's training calendar. Exercise WINTER ARROW and SOUTHERN ARROW were The training highlight of 1965 was Exercise NORDIC AIR, in whichĭivision airborne units made a parachute assault into the Jutland Military air movement ever conducted up to that time. Of organizing, the "Hell on Wheels" from Texas conductedĪ relief operation with the 8th Division. In OPERATION BIG LIFT, Pathfinder elements moved into "battle In early November, as the 2nd Armoredĭivision was arriving at Rhein-Main Air Base from Fort Hood, Texas, Overland to reinforce the Berlin garrison. One of the division's battle groups, the 18th Infantry, moved In August 1961, when the East Germans erected the Berlin Wall, Maintained by the assignment of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, These two battle groups were relieved from assignment to theĨth in April 1963, but the Division's airborne capability was On January 15, 1959, the 1st Airborne Battle Group,ĥ05th Infantry was also assigned to the Division. With the assignment of the 1st Airborne Battle Group, 504th In 1958 the 8th Infantry Division (M) gained an airborne capability ![]() Headquarters became operational at Bad Kreuznach, Germany. ![]() Within a year the 8th Division participated in GYROSCOPE, reorganizationĪnd BIG SWITCH operations, and on December 14, 1957, the division Its place among the NATO forces in Germany under the US Seventh On October 9, 1956, the 8th Infantry Division officially took November 1955 the Department of the Army named the 8th DivisionĪn OPERATION GYROSCOPE unit and announced that it wouldĬhange places with the 9th Infantry Division in Germany.
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