The General and His DaughterJames Maurice Gavin left for war in April 1943 as a colonel commanding the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne DivisionAmericas first airborne division and the first to fight in World War II. In 1944, Slim Jim Gavin, as he was known to his troops, at the age of thirty seven became the 82nds commanding generalthe youngest Army officer to become a major general since the Civil War. At wars end, this soldiers soldier had become one of