In this newsletter, beavers that parachute; the crab population off Alaska falls; fox vs. frog ... and nearly 500 species of ...

We explore the former WWII drop zones where Allied paratroopers once landed behind enemy lines. Among the soil and ruins, we ...

Second Lt. Lester L. Lowry was flying a P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft when he lost control in heavy cloud and dove straight into ...

Comedian Al Murray returns to Arnhem in the Netherlands, forty years after he first visited as a teenager with his father.

It was one of the deadliest incidents of the period known as “The Troubles," the conflict between mainly Catholic supporters ...

Band of Brothers follows Easy Company (aka the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne ...

She completed her parachute training at an air base in what today is northern Israel and dropped ... After graduating from high school in 1939, she departed Hungary shortly after Germany invaded ...

Heroic stories of Black and Caribbean paratroopers who fought on D-Day and at Arnhem in 1944 have been retold as part of a ...

According to NPR, spook comes from the Dutch word for apparition, or specter. The noun was first used in English around the turn of the nineteenth century. From there, the word lived a harmless life, ...

A mother once received three telegrams in just two weeks, each one telling her that a son was missing during the Second World War ...

Not even a government shutdown can ground the Army Air Corps ahead of the Air Force versus Army football game on Saturday. No, that’s not a typo. Even though the planned flyover by the Air Force and ...

With fire streaming from his engine and the right wing half enveloped in flames, Lindsey led the formation to drop their ...