FORT LIBERTY, N.C. — The bold and audacious military maneuver known as D-Day helped turn the tide of World War II, opening Europe to the Allies and a German surrender 11 months later. But before the ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, June 25, 2024 – A prior trip to Normandy France for the 75th anniversary of D-Day inspired a Brooke Army Medical Center interventional radiologist to ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a former Allied airborne drop zone deep in the woods, the team follows the traces of a dramatic World War II operation: ...

"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 ...

Vincent Speranza, the American paratrooper who became known as the soldier who doled out beer to his wounded comrades during the Battle of the Bulge, died Wednesday at the age of 98, the 18th Airborne ...

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 ...

Wagoner-area author Charles Sasser stood in the open doors of the WWII-vintage C-47 “Boogie Baby” as he prepared to parachute onto the plans outside tiny Frederick, Oklahoma. Sasser was one of 24 ...

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 ...

The stage is set for the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum's 34th Annual WWII Weekend-one of the largest and most immersive living history events of its kind in the world. Taking place June 6th, 7th, and 8th, ...