82nd Infantry Division standing "Retreat" following Sgt. Alvin C. York's address to the Division at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana on this day in 1942. The event was the first assembly of the Division since reactivation.
The 82nd had been Sgt. Alvin York's division in World War One, at which time it acquired the nickname the "All American" division, as its members were conscripts from around the United States. It was, at that time, simply the 82nd Division.
At the time of this photograph, it was the 82nd Infantry Division, but that was about to change. In August, it would become the 82nd Airborne Division. The change came about due to a variety of factors, including that it was once again made up of conscripts, and many Regular Army officers did not trust the airborne concept.
In the Battle of the Coral Sea the Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho was sunk.
The British took Diego Suarez in Madagascar.
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