Airplanes may get all the airborne attention when discussing World War II, but military gliders also made huge contributions ...

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 ...

We track down the exact fields in West Berkshire where the 101st Airborne staged a top secret mass drop on March 23, 1944 - a ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

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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 ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) -While some may be headed to Europe for summer vacation, Joseph Collins, a veteran who served in Iraq and member of the World War II airborne demonstration team, has a much ...