(Under Construction – Last edited 11/10/2025)
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This online album was created to preserve and share an album our father, Irv Horowitz, created during his service in the 82nd Airborne’s 326th Glider Infantry Regiment during World War II. It contains pictures of life at the camps, training for glider warfare, paintings and drawings by Irv and other GIs, and images of family during furloughs and camp visits.
Irwin (Irv) Horowitz was a commercial artist, born in 1916 in Cleveland, Ohio. He married Dorothy, a nurse, in 1941. He was inducted in the Army in 1942. As a nurse, Dorothy often accompanied him during his service.
He was assigned to the 326th Glider Infantry to be part of the Allied invasion of France, and later, Japan. But though the unit intensively trained for combat, they remained stateside during the war.
The 326th Infantry Regiment fought in World War I as part of the 82nd Division, which later became the first Army Airborne Division in World War II. The 326th Glider Infantry Regiment trained to silently deliver troops and heavy equipment to combat zones .
Glider warfare was a lesser known tool of the Allies. Unlike paratroopers that were dropped one at a time, gliders carried up to 16 soldiers at once, and often transported jeeps and other supplies.
Irv’s War Album was a 100-page collection of annotated photographs, articles, drawings, and memorabilia he assembled during his service with the 326th GIR. It is a priceless document of the training and dangers members of the Glider Infantry experienced.
Some of the images from the Album
