509TH PARACHUTE INFANTRY REGIMENT

London, England • July 25, 1942 On this date in 1942 U.S. President Franklin D. Roose­velt learned that the Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS), an amal­gam of the high-ranking mili­tary officers of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (War and Navy Depart­ments) and their British counter­parts, the British Chiefs of Staff Com­mit­tee, had estab­lished the…