HISTORY SLIDES FOR 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION

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Subject = HISTORY SLIDES FOR 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION                      

Folder Title = DRAFT COPY OF 101ST ABN DIV AALT OPERATIONS DS-S                                                

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       account the division's then current strength and unit locations.

       The 101st had its Aviation Brigade TAC, B/1-101 AATK, B/3-502d

       Infantry and a platoon minus from B/426th Supply and

       Transportation Battalion forward in FOB Bastogne. The rest of
       the division then in theater, to include the 1-502d Infantry

       the 3-502d Infantry (-), 2-44th Air Defense Artillery (-), 2d

       FASCO, 1-32'Oth Field Artillery (-), 1-101 AATK (-), 2-229th AATK,

       and Task Force 9-101st Aviation, was located in Camp Eagle II.

       Both courses of action also took into account the continued

       arrival in Saudi Arabia. of the division's combat power. Both

       proposals called for a defense strengthened over a period of
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       three weeks by newly arriving troops.

             Course of action one proposed that the division defend with

       the Aviation Brigade and the Second Air Assault Brigade Task

       Force conducting a delay between phase lines stone and

       Cantaloupe. One infantry battalion would conduct a cluster
       defense while an infantry brigade (-), would establish anti-armor

       positions along likely Iraqi avenues of approach. Another
       infantry brigade would eventually establish blocking positions
       along the main highway leading to KFIA. 26

             The second course of action proposed that the division

       integrate into the right flank of the 82d Airborne Division's

       defense of Dhahran. This proposal called for a battalion air

       assault north to establish blocking positions along likely
       avenues of approach. 29 The division commander selected course of


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Subject = HISTORY SLIDES FOR 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION
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