Veteran Information
Date of Birth: 1/21/1916
Date of Death: 6/3/1969
Address: 25 Purdy Avenue
Branch of Service: U.S. Army - 82nd Airborne Division
Service Number: 32506234
Description
Robert L. Vaughan
Robert Leahan Vaughan was born on January 21, 1916, in Port Chester, New York, his father, Robert, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 28.
He lost his father when he was only one year old. In Rye his family lived at 25 Purdy Avenue.
Robert was a Rye High School Graduate, Class of 1935. He enlisted in 1942 and served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Cpl. Robert Vaughan With Glider Troops of 82nd Airborne Division
The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division of the United States Army specializing in parachute assault operations into denied areas with a U.S. Department of Defense requirement to “respond to crisis contingencies anywhere in the world within 18 hours”.
Based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the 82nd Airborne Division is the U.S. Army’s most strategically mobile division.
Cpl. Robert L. Vaughan, in the Medical Corps of the 82nd Airborne Division of the U. S. 1st Army, was one of the thousands of American soldiers who dropped out of the sky in parachutes or gliders over Holland Operation Market Garden in the recent liberation of the key Nijmegen sector which paved the way for the sweep of powerful British units from Belgium to the threshold of Germany.
It is this same 82nd Airborne outfit that is credited with supplying the motive for the death of one of Hitlers regimental colonels. After seeing the scope of the division as it swept against his forces, the Nazi commander killed himself. Cpl. Vaughan, the son of Mrs. Lydia Vaughan of 25 Purdy Avenue, had been in the Medical Corps for three years.
He went in to Holland by glider and in a note to his mother said that to appreciate a ride in a glider, one must ride in one. He sent home a souvenir brochure, the All American Paraglide, compiled by members of the 82nd Division, and printed by the Gthleilander Press for the Dutch Patriots as a gesture of their gratitude to the liberators.
Friday, January 19, 1945 T H E RYE CHRONICLE PAGE FIVE
Rye Chronicle Obit for Robert Vaughan
Rye High School Graduate, class of 1935
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