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Welcome to the website of the "327th Glider Riders"

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The 327th Infantry Regiment, during WWII named the Bastogne Bulldogs, was a glider infantry regiment of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army. During World War II, the 327th was a glider-borne regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. It fought during World War I as part of the 82nd Division. In subsequent years it has also been deployed to the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and most recently to Iraq and Afghanistan. The song "Glider Rider" describes (humorously) some of the slights that glider-borne troops felt they received from the Army during World War II; though the regiment's public fame rose with the 1949 movie Battleground about the Siege of Bastogne in later months of 1944.

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