Portrait of the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 509th Parachute Regiment, US Army Lieutenant Colonel Edson Raff (Edson Duncan Raff, 1907-2003).
A battalion commanded by Edson Raff carried out the first combat parachute landing in the history of the US Army in Oran, Algeria in 1942.
Edson Raff wrote the book “We Jumped to Fight” in 1944.
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