We track down the exact fields in West Berkshire where the 101st Airborne staged a top secret mass drop on March 23, 1944 - a ...

June 5, 1944. In the skies over Normandy, Jake McNiece, a demolition expert in the US 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, ...

FORT MOORE, Ga.− Parachute riggers of the 1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade, pack the parachutes used daily in airborne training. Recently they ...

As a young man, U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Connor Cozad grew up watching Band of Brothers, a 2001 HBO miniseries depicting the history of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry ...

Members of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion at Pendleton Army Airfield are briefed before takeoff during the wildfire in the summer of 1945. PENDLETON — A group of former U.S. Army paratroopers ...

(AP) - Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute infantry battalion, has died. He was 108. Harris died ...

On a brief furlough from his Army unit, Charles Audet was visiting Paris in December 1944 when Germany launched its last major offensive of World War II, which became known as the Battle of the Bulge.