PRINTER'S NO. 1595
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
317
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY REGAN, ARNOLD, AUMENT, BAKER, BARTOLOTTA, BLAKE,
BREWSTER, BROWNE, COSTA, DINNIMAN, HUGHES, HUTCHINSON,
IOVINO, KILLION, LEACH, MARTIN, MASTRIANO, MENSCH, PHILLIPS-
HILL, PITTMAN, SANTARSIERO, TARTAGLIONE AND J. WARD,
MARCH 13, 2020
REFERRED TO VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS,
MARCH 13, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Designating March 24, 2020, as "17th Airborne Division Day" in
Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Formed and trained during wartime, the 17th Airborne
Division of the First Allied Airborne Army entered combat
December 25, 1944, at Ardennes, Belgium; and
WHEREAS, The division engaged in the Rhineland, Ardennes-
Alsace and Central Europe campaigns of World War II, having
command posts in England, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and
Germany; and
WHEREAS, Major General William M. Miley led the division from
its activation in April 1943 through its inactivation in
September 1945; and
WHEREAS, More members of this specialized volunteer unit came
from Pennsylvania than from any other state; and
WHEREAS, The division received many Presidential Unit
Citations; and
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