Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jim Akin carried an estimated 10,000 paratroopers as a pilot, and when he skydived at 99 years old ...
On Friday, John Deere honored veterans – particularly two Quad Cities World War II veterans. The company celebrated Veterans ...
An extremely rare two-stroke Welbike built to carry British Paratroopers into battle in World War II, has come up for auction. The 1942 bike – which was owned and brought back from the war by ...
The big and cumbersome Army is trying to transform itself to deploy quickly to Asia, if needed. It is an inherently dangerous ...
Eighty years after hundreds of Allied soldiers parachuted from military aircraft into Nazi-occupied Netherlands as part of a daring World War Two offensive ... 700 paratroopers from eight Nato ...
Honoring the Paratroopers of World War II” will be the program at the monthly meeting of the High Point Historical Society, scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday at the High Point Museum, 1859 E ...
During the Allied invasion of Europe, Walter Perkowski led a patrol of fellow paratroopers in southern ... He was modest about his actions during World War II, said his daughter, Kathy Perkowski ...
Hundreds of NATO paratroopers dropped near Arnhem in the Netherlands, commemorating 80 years since one of the most renowned World War II operations. The Allied bid to secure a Rhine crossing ...
A week into a mission of vengeance targeting war criminals in the Russian 155th ... On Oct. 18, 95th Air Assault Brigade paratroopers cornered a clutch of 155th Naval Infantry Brigade armored ...
On July 24, the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade, holding the line outside the town of Kurakhivka in eastern Ukraine, ...