In September 1944, a column of US paratroopers and British tankers advanced northeast up the Groesbeeksweg, their Sherman tracks churning up the dirt as they neared the city of Nijmegen.

What did the Band of Brothers wear in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge during the winter of 1944? In this episode of ...

The paratroopers were highly trained and effective, making 1,200 jumps with the loss of only one man. And they were all Black. Sgt. Joe Harris.

Once in a while a TV series so great comes along that it leaves everyone either in tears, disbelief or shock. Well, when it comes to Band of Brothers it evokes all of the mentioned emotions, and some ...

Ashton Pittman, grandson of Joe Harris, holds a jacket and boots given to him by organizers of a group of former and active paratroopers during Harris’ memorial service Saturday.

Their faces were daubed with red, black, green and white war paint, their heads shorn except for a scalp lock. They squatted and waited before an incongruous background : a flying field in the ...

Object Details author Haskew, Michael E. Subject United States Army Parachute troops History Notes Subtitle from cover Includes index Contents Training -- Operation Torch -- Sicily and Italy -- D-Day ...

Speranza joined the Army at age 18, intending to become a line infantryman. After seeing an airborne demonstration at Fort Benning, Georgia, however, he joined the paratroopers.

This past March, the 98-year-old veteran skydived as part of a ceremony commemorating WWII paratroopers. “Jumping is the most fantastic thing in the world,” he told Staten Island Live.

NAPLES, Italy — Cristoforo Ventura has spent the past four decades dutifully tending a memorial he helped create to honor the sacrifice of 38 U.S. Army paratroopers and a Navy nurse killed in ...