I can see T. A. Gardner's points and I agree with them. But I think we'll have to consider that if the 101st airborne division didn't see as much action as regular divisions it is because it was not REGULAR. The division was created, trained and used only for special purposes or critical situations. If the US Army would have been short of units and equippment they would have used it as a regular division as did the Germans with their own airborne units.

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