Airplanes may get all the airborne attention when discussing World War II, but military gliders also made huge contributions ...
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 ...
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.
This captivating documentary explores the careers of military parachute jumpers in World War II and their astonishing bravado as they prepared for deployment behind enemy lines without immediate ...
FORT BRAGG — A flyover of Blackhawks and Apache helicopters, passing of unit colors and pass in review aboard the Army’s newest infantry squad vehicle on Fort Bragg means one thing for the 82nd ...
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 ...
"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 ...
2020-04-11T10:00:57-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/9a7/20200411100156003_hd.jpgDescribes what someone from Georgia would have worn and what their quickly thrown ...
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 ...