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The 82nd Airborne Division was a paratrooper division and therefore it was smaller than the typical Infantry Division. A paratrooper division were authorized to have about 9,000 men in its organization whereas an Infantry Division had 15,000 men.

An airborne division had 9 companies in each of the three regiments whereas the infantry division had 12 companies in each of its regiments.

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