FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – The 30th Gander Memorial Ceremony hosted by the 2nd Brigade Combat, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 12 at 9 a.m. at the Gander Memorial Site on Screaming Eagle Blvd.
This ceremony marks the 30th anniversary of the plane crash at Gander International Airport in Newfoundland, Canada, which took the lives of 248 Screaming Eagles.
Soldiers assigned to 3rd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, were returning from a six-month deployment to the Sinai Peninsula as a part of the Multi-National Force and Observers when the plane crashed Dec. 12, 1985.
The soldiers’ mission was to monitor the demilitarized zone between Egypt and Israel – a peacekeeping mission.