Day, the Battle of Carentan played a crucial role in securing a continuous front for the Allies. This video explores the ...

An event remembering the basing of US troops in Leicester during World War Two is to take place. The 82nd Airborne Division ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...