A search near a former drop zone uncovers the relics of a World War II airborne operation that unfolded in darkness and ...

Several parachuters took to the sky for an event in honor of a World War II Veteran from Greene County.

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 March 15 ...

Back to U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa VICENZA, Italy — Paola Del Din, one of Italy’s most storied World War II partisans and a pioneering figure in airborne history, received the ...

nasmain copy 39088020698452 Donor note: Gift of Norman Polmar. Airborne warfare reached its peak during World War II -- the only war in which the potential gains of using airborne tactics ever ...

In June 1944, my uncle, Sgt. Louis B. Flores, was a paratrooper serving with Easy Company (alternately with HQ Company) in the 101st Airborne Division during the D-Day invasion at Normandy — later at ...

When U.S. Army paratroopers, dropped behind enemy lines and cannot use radio communication for fear of revealing their positions, they use trained pigeons that were also dropped by parachute in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest ...