Fourteen years after losing both his legs to an IED, Jon Harmon will step out of a C-47 and jump into same spot the 82nd ...

James “Pee Wee” Martin, of Sugarcreek Twp., was a member of the 101st Airborne Division on D Day. He and his group jumped 25 miles behind enemy lines the night before the invasion under heavy German ...

During World War II, Winston Churchill unleashed Britain’s “shadow raiders” against Nazi-occupied Europe. These commandos, SOE agents, and irregular warriors operated behind enemy lines conducting ...

Shawn Moore was just a boy no older than 10 when his lifelong passion for history began thanks to his grandfather, Doyle E.

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 ...

Rock Island Arsenal Museum exhibit honors World War II Veteran Henry Langrehr in a new exhibit featuring a dozen of his personal items brought back from the war. (RIAM). A son of the Illinois Quad ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...