Airborne warfare reached its peak during World War II -- the only war in which the potential gains of using airborne tactics ever justified the great costs, both material and human. The revolutionary ...
Passengers took in Long Island's shorelines, while honoring veterans during the American Airpower Museum's Historical Flight ...
We open at the memorial to Lt Col Robert G. Cole, commander of 3/502 PIR, whose bayonet charge on June 11, 1944 helped unlock ...
Hunter Wilford’s eyes were barely visible when he pulled a reproduction of a World War II U.S. Army airborne unit helmet down over his head. But there were plenty of other military artifacts and ...
"D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge--the US Airborne divisions were integral at all these major points in World War II. But they also played a significant role in North Africa, where ...
As the years roll on, things change. We begin to develop more wrinkles and aches, new technologies emerge, our priorities change and, inevitably, the world keeps turning. Through all of the ups and ...
When Patrick O'Donnell first approached Jack Trovato and asked him to talk about his World War II combat experiences, the Airborne veteran told the earnest young man to get lost. "I told him no in no ...
WHITEVILLE, Tenn. — Age is just a number... and World War II veteran Roy Angin was not about to let his stop him from making one last airborne jump. Angin turned 95 on Thursday. He went through U.S.
Albert Chamrad, a resident and retired police officer from Lower Burrell, died earlier this month, taking his firsthand account of performing one of the most dangerous duties in World War II with him.