Never To Be Forgotten by Marc Wolfe Style:Unframed 2-319th AFAR

2-319th AFAR

82d and 101st Airborne Divisions

After high school graduation

000 individual awards and together earned the Army Aviation Association of America (AAAA) Aviation Unit of the Year Award

Never To Be Forgotten by Marc Wolfe Style:Unframed 2-319th AFARNEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN The 83d Chemical Mortar Battalion first activated at Camp Gordon, Georgia on 10 June 1942. After intensive training, it departed the United States on 29 April 1943 for overseas duty. The battalion served 508 days in combat in the Mediterranean Theater and Mainland Europe during World War II. The battalion was designed to carry thirty six 4. 2 inch mortars, with each shell weighing about 25 pounds, for a total firepower effect