The Rangers in North Africa. The 1st Ranger Battalion spearheaded Operation TORCH, the Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942. The battalion conducted a night landing with LCAs (landing craft–assault) at the Algerian port of Arzew on 8 November 1942.

The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division of the United States Army specializing in parachute assault operations into hostile areas [1] with a U.S. Department of Defense mandate to be "on-call to fight any time, anywhere" at "the knife's edge of technology and readiness."

The Ranger Regiment is executing a wide range of diverse operations that include airborne and air assaults into Afghanistan and Iraq, mounted infiltrations behind enemy lines, complex urban...

Oct 1, 2022 · In the late hours of Wednesday, 28 October, two Nigerian Air Force C-130H Hercules and two Aeritalia G-222 tactical transport aircraft airdropped a contingent of paratroopers in the urban Abuja metropolitan area.

The 75th Ranger Regiment is an elite airborne light infantry combat formation within the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC). The six battalions of the modern Rangers have been deployed in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan and Iraq.

The 101st Airborne was routed to Bastogne, located 107 miles (172 km) away on a 1,463 feet (446 m) high plateau, while the 82nd Airborne took up positions further north to block the critical advance of Kampfgruppe Peiper toward Werbomont, Belgium.

This article begins with the formation of two new Ranger battalions in North Africa, covers the Ranger operations in the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and the Allied landing at Salerno, and carries them through to the battle of Cisterna following the Anzio landing in January 1944.

After successfully spearheading amphibious assaults in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy and participating in numerous battle campaigns, Darby’s Rangers were tragically destroyed in a doomed attack on Cisterna.

Oct 30, 2007 · Sixty-five years ago this month American paratroopers began their distinguished combat record when the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion made the U.S. Army's first airborne combat jump near...

An elite airborne unit, the 2nd Rangers were the Army’s only all-Black Ranger Company. On the cusp of our military’s integration, these trailblazing heroes c...