The 101st Airborne Division is the star unit of the US Army, with a history dating back to 1918, officially reorganized into the Airborne Force on August 15, 1942, and has participated in a series of battles such as Normandy, Market Garden, and Bulge, with the reputation of "Roaring Eagles", although it was reorganized into an air mobile division (later established as an air assault division) during the Vietnam War, it retained the title of airborne division full of honor for historical reasons. Due to its unique mobility and high-level training, it has made it the vanguard of the US ground forces, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria can see their active figure, as one of the most combat-effective units of the US military, many of the successive commanders (division commanders) of the 101st Airborne Division have later reached the rank of general, which can be described as talented, the following is the list compiled by the editor:
Maxwell Taylor
Maxwell Taylor, born in Missouri in 1901, became commander of the 101st Airborne Division in March 1944 as deputy commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, and then served successively as commander of the 8th Army, chief of staff of the Army, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retiring in 1964 with the rank of general.
Anthony McAuliffe
Anthony McAuliffe, born in Washington, D.C., in 1898, became commander of the 101st Airborne Division in August 1942 as artillery commander of the 101st Airborne Division, and then served as commander of the 103rd Infantry Division, deputy commander of the Joint Task Force for Nuclear Testing of Bikini Atoll, deputy chief of staff of the Army, commander of the 7th Army, and commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, retiring in 1956 with the rank of general.
Paul Adams
Paul Adams, born in Alabama in 1906, became commander of the 101st Airborne Division in June 1953 as chief of staff of the 8th Army, and then served as commander of the U.S. Army in the Middle East, commander of the 5th Army, commander of the 3rd Army, and commander of the strike command, retiring in 1966 with the rank of general.
William Westmoreland
William Westmoreland, born in South Carolina in 1914, became commander of the 101st Airborne Division in April 1958 as assistant to the Army Chief of Staff, and then served as president of the West Point Military Academy, commander of the 18th Airborne Force, commander of the U.S. Military Assistance Vietnam Command, and chief of staff of the Army, retiring in 1972 with the rank of general.
Ben Harrell
Ben Harrell, born in Oregon in 1911, became commander of the 101st Airborne Division in June 1960 as commander of the 7th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division, and then served as commander of the 6th Army and commander of NATO troops in southeastern Europe, retiring in 1971 with the rank of general.
Melvin Chase
Melvin Zais, born in Massachusetts in 1916, assumed the post of commander of the 101st Airborne Division in March 1966 as chief of the staff of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, and then successively served as commander of the 24th Army, director of the Joint Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, commander of the 3rd Army, and commander of NATO Army Forces in Southeastern Europe, retiring in 1975 with the rank of general.
John Wickham
John Wickham, born in New York in 1928, became commander of the 101st Airborne Division in March 1976 as deputy chief of staff of the U.S. Military Assistance Vietnam Command, and then served as commander of the 8th Army, deputy chief of staff, and chief of staff of the army, retiring in 1987 with the rank of general.
Bingford Pye III
Binford Peay III, born in Virginia in 1940, became commander of the 101st Airborne Division in August 1989 as deputy colonel (academy) of the Army Command and Staff College, and then served as deputy chief of staff of the army and commander of the central command, retiring in 1997 with the rank of general.
John Keane
Jack Keane, born in New York in 1943, became commander of the 101st Airborne Division in July 1993 as commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division, and then served as commander of the 18th Airborne Corps and deputy chief of staff of the Army, retiring in 2003 with the rank of general.
William Conan
William Kernan, born in Texas in 1946, became commander of the 101st Airborne Division in November 1996 as director of the Special Operations Command's Program Policy and Strategic Assessment (J5) Division, and then served as commander of the 18th Airborne Force and commander of the Joint Forces Command, retiring in 2002 with the rank of general.
Richard Cody
Richard Cody, born in Vermont in 1950, became commander of the 101st Airborne Division in June 2006 as commander of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment of the Special Operations Command, and then served as deputy chief of staff of the Army, retiring in 2013 with the rank of general.
David Petraeus
David Petraeus, born in New York in 1952, became commander of the 101st Airborne Division in July 2002 as deputy chief of staff of NATO peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and deputy commander of the counterterrorism unit of the United States Joint Agencies, and then served as commander of the Army Joint Arms Center, commander of Central Command, and commander of the International Assistance Force in Afghanistan, retiring in 2011 with the rank of general.
John Campbell
John Campbell, born in Maine in 1957, became commander of the 101st Airborne Division in July 2009 as deputy director of the Joint Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then served as deputy chief of staff of the Army and commander of the International Assistance Force in Afghanistan, retiring in 2016 with the rank of general.
James McConville
James McConville, born in Massachusetts in 1959, became commander of the 101st Airborne Division in August 2011 as the Army's Legislative Liaison Director, and then served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff of the Army.
Andrew Popas
Andrew Poppas, born in Wisconsin in 1966, became commander of the 101st Airborne Division in January 2017 as principal assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then served as director of the Joint Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and commander of the Army Corps Command.