Pictures

MG Matthew Ridgway, Commanding General of the 82d ABN DIV (left, with hand on M1A1 Carbine stock), receives a battlefield update briefing from BG Maxwell Taylor, Assistant Division Commander of the 82d, outside of Ribera, Sicily on July 25, 1943
*Taylor would go on to become the Commanding General of the 101st ABN DIV for the Normandy invasion thru to the end of WWII