On June 6, 1944, 22-year-old Victor Nelson was the eighth paratrooper to jump in the blackness covering the coastline of ...

World War II hero Harry 'Tosh' Monks spent D-Day being peppered by German fire on top of a tree - now his medals are expected ...

On landing, the priority was to check the ... Mr Arthur describes going through a wood with the bodies of paratroopers hanging from the trees and on the ground. “You wanted to help them, but ...

Every tree tells a story, but some are beyond eloquent, holding memories, embodying belief, marking sorrow. We hold trees in our imagination, where they grow in strange, wonderful ways in forests ...

Jovon Propst, Spartan Company, 54th Brigade Engineer Battalion, achieved on October 9, 2024, when he made the jump, earning the prestigious title of centurion paratrooper. "I get asked all the ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Tree planting has been widely touted as a cost-effective way of reducing global warming, due to trees' ability to store large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere. But ...

Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the ... around 20,000 dropping by parachute and roughly 15,000 landing in gliders — it failed in its primary objective of capturing the ...

Soldiers of the 79th separate airborne assault brigade in Kurakhove direction destroyed an armored column with a landing force of Russian occupiers ... "On Kurakhove direction, paratroopers destroyed ...

During the Allied invasion of Europe, Walter Perkowski led a patrol of fellow paratroopers in southern France against German troops. Perkowski fatally shot two of the combatants, his military ...

IDF soldiers find weapons in evacuated residential buildings in southern Lebanon (IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT) The combat team of the IDF's Paratrooper Brigade has eliminated 15 Hezbollah terrorists ...