101st Airborne Division

NEAR ISKANDARIYAH, Iraq - Brig. Gen. Edward Sinclair, touring what amounts to a small city he is building on a former military airfield here, hopped out of his Humvee and marched over to a truck parked near a battery of howitzer guns pointed skyward. "It's General Sinclair," he announced. "Get your butt out here so I can talk to you." As soon as Lt. Marshall Clay poked his head out, Sinclair asked, "Who told you to set up here?" The battalion, said Clay, tentatively. Sinclair shook his head no. Clay had set up operations on what was going to be the parking place for a general's helicopter.

Sept. 25 1957 Nine black students were escorted to Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., by members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.

Sept. 25 1957 Nine black students were escorted to Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., by members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-- --It was in September 1957 that Little Rock's Central High School was ordered to abide by federal law and integrate. The result was turmoil on the school's campus and an ugly time for nine black students who tried to enter the school. They endured daily harassment and even death threats. While Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) outlawed the concept of segregated schools, many still resisted change. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus insisted Central High School would never be integrated.

On May 9, 2005, ROBERT M. BOWEN, proud WWII Army Veteran of the 101st Airborne Division, beloved husband of the late Christine Bowen, cherished brother-in-law of Wilfred Schmidt and his wife Elsie. Also survived by loving nieces and nephews. A Memorial Service will be held on Tuesday at the Holy Nativity Lutheran Church, 1200 Linden Avenue, Arbutus at7 P.M. Graveside Services will be held on Wednesday at the St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery in Violetville.

Before the 101st Airborne Division moved into combat in Iraq, Capt. Shane Dentinger didn't know what to expect of the days ahead. "If, or when, that first soldier gets shot, how are the other soldiers going to react?" he said while hand-washing his clothes in a bucket, still at a staging area in Kuwait. "How am I going to react?" The 101st is an air assault force, which means helicopters carry infantry soldiers into battle zones. The division's worst fighting may be yet to come. Dentinger is a muscular 6-foot-3.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A group affiliated with al-Qaida in Iraq said yesterday that it had kidnapped two American soldiers who are being searched for by thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops in an area known as "the triangle of death." Seven other U.S. soldiers were wounded during the search, the top military spokesman in Baghdad said. Details weren't immediately announced. More than 8,000 American and Iraqi security personnel were looking for the soldiers, who disappeared Friday. Three teams of divers searched the nearby Euphrates River.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage said during a visit here yesterday that U.S. officials have been sobered by a mounting toll of casualties in Iraq, but he insisted that America will press forward and take the fight to the enemy. Armitage's remarks came at the end of the bloodiest week for coalition forces since April. The day began with the deaths of two U.S. paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division who were killed in a land mine explosion just outside the restive city of Fallujah.

Sometime after midnight on June 6, 1944, men of the 101st Airborne Division jumped into the terrifying darkness that was Occupied France with parachutes on their backs, tommy-guns in their hands and the name of a 19th century Chiricahua Apache warrioSometime after midnight on June 6, 1944, men of the 101st Airborne Division jumped into the terrifying darkness that was Occupied France with parachutes on their backs, tommy-guns in their hands and the name...

CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait -- It was the sort of exchange old friends have a million times. "How's Coy doing?" Capt. Christopher Seifert asked. Coy is the 2-year-old son of Capt. Mark Johnson. Last week, doctors in Nashville, Tenn., implanted a pacemaker in his tiny chest. "How's Terry?" Johnson asked. The two men, both of whom were married soon after college, liked to talk about their wives. "Good," said Seifert. And the back-and-forth followed its comfortable, predictable course Saturday afternoon at the camp of the 101st Airborne Division here in the desert a few miles south of Iraq.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A group affiliated with al-Qaida in Iraq said yesterday that it had kidnapped two American soldiers who are being searched for by thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops in an area known as "the triangle of death." Seven other U.S. soldiers were wounded during the search, the top military spokesman in Baghdad said. Details weren't immediately announced. More than 8,000 American and Iraqi security personnel were looking for the soldiers, who disappeared Friday. Three teams of divers searched the nearby Euphrates River.

Gen. William Westmoreland, the World War II hero who was later vilified for his leadership of the United States' failed war in Vietnam, died last night in Charleston, S.C. He was 91. General Westmoreland died of natural causes at Bishop Gadsden retirement home, his son, James Ripley Westmoreland told the Associated Press. He was chief of his fellow cadets at West Point; the decorated leader of a unit that helped turn back German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in North Africa; a heralded artillery officer in the European campaign that forced Germany to its knees; a commander of the heralded 101st Airborne Division; superintendent of West Point and, finally, the Army's chief of staff.

On May 9, 2005, ROBERT M. BOWEN, proud WWII Army Veteran of the 101st Airborne Division, beloved husband of the late Christine Bowen, cherished brother-in-law of Wilfred Schmidt and his wife Elsie. Also survived by loving nieces and nephews. A Memorial Service will be held on Tuesday at the Holy Nativity Lutheran Church, 1200 Linden Avenue, Arbutus at7 P.M. Graveside Services will be held on Wednesday at the St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery in Violetville.

Wayne, Columbia: Do most soldiers feel what the United States is doing in Iraq is appreciated by Iraq or viewed as an invasion of Iraq's own affairs? And should our troops be there in the first place? I ask this because I read and see mixed responses to this question in the media. Calvert: Soldiers I've talked to both here and in Iraq say they think most Iraqis were glad to see Saddam Hussein toppled and [are] thankful for the U.S. military's subsequent efforts to restore civil order. That said, soldiers also knew that most Iraqis have always hoped the occupation would end sooner than later, and the troops understand that desire.

Carl R. Wheeler, a veteran of the 101st Airborne Division who parachuted into France on D-Day, fought in several key battles and married the widow of a fellow soldier killed in the war, died of Lewy body disease, a dementia-related condition, Sunday at his Havre de Grace home. He was 82. Mr. Wheeler was born in Marion, Va., and moved to Perry Point when his father took a job at the veterans hospital. After graduating from Perryville High School in 1939, he enlisted in the Maryland National Guard and served as a medic and ambulance driver.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage said during a visit here yesterday that U.S. officials have been sobered by a mounting toll of casualties in Iraq, but he insisted that America will press forward and take the fight to the enemy. Armitage's remarks came at the end of the bloodiest week for coalition forces since April. The day began with the deaths of two U.S. paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division who were killed in a land mine explosion just outside the restive city of Fallujah.

Carl R. Wheeler, a veteran of the 101st Airborne Division who parachuted into France on D-Day, fought in several key battles and married the widow of a fellow soldier killed in the war, died of Lewy body disease, a dementia-related condition, Sunday at his Havre de Grace home. He was 82. Mr. Wheeler was born in Marion, Va., and moved to Perry Point when his father took a job at the veterans hospital. After graduating from Perryville High School in 1939, he enlisted in the Maryland National Guard and served as a medic and ambulance driver.

Gen. William Westmoreland, the World War II hero who was later vilified for his leadership of the United States' failed war in Vietnam, died last night in Charleston, S.C. He was 91. General Westmoreland died of natural causes at Bishop Gadsden retirement home, his son, James Ripley Westmoreland told the Associated Press. He was chief of his fellow cadets at West Point; the decorated leader of a unit that helped turn back German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in North Africa; a heralded artillery officer in the European campaign that forced Germany to its knees; a commander of the heralded 101st Airborne Division; superintendent of West Point and, finally, the Army's chief of staff.

NEAR ISKANDARIYAH, Iraq - Brig. Gen. Edward Sinclair, touring what amounts to a small city he is building on a former military airfield here, hopped out of his Humvee and marched over to a truck parked near a battery of howitzer guns pointed skyward. "It's General Sinclair," he announced. "Get your butt out here so I can talk to you." As soon as Lt. Marshall Clay poked his head out, Sinclair asked, "Who told you to set up here?" The battalion, said Clay, tentatively. Sinclair shook his head no. Clay had set up operations on what was going to be the parking place for a general's helicopter.

Before the 101st Airborne Division moved into combat in Iraq, Capt. Shane Dentinger didn't know what to expect of the days ahead. "If, or when, that first soldier gets shot, how are the other soldiers going to react?" he said while hand-washing his clothes in a bucket, still at a staging area in Kuwait. "How am I going to react?" The 101st is an air assault force, which means helicopters carry infantry soldiers into battle zones. The division's worst fighting may be yet to come. Dentinger is a muscular 6-foot-3.