1st Ranger Battalion

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The 1st Ranger Battalion is the first of three ranger battalions belonging to the United States Army's 75th Ranger Regiment. It is currently based at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It was originally formed shortly after the United States' entry into World War II and was modeled after the British Commandos during the war. Members from the unit were the first American soldiers to see combat in the European theater when they participated in the failed raid on Dieppe in France in 1942, during which three Rangers were killed and several more were captured. Later, the 1st Ranger Battalion was sent to North Africa, where they participated in the landings in Algeria and the fighting in Tunisia in 1943. Also in 1943 the unit provided training cadre to train two more Ranger battalions between the campaigns in Sicily and the Italian mainland. After World War II, the 1st Ranger Battalion went through a number of changes of name and composition as it has been activated, deactivated...

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