Born in Portsmouth, Sgt Cornell served with the 7th Parachute Battalion, earning a Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) for his courage in 1944. He is credited with inspiring the character Lt Arthur ...

Two Riverside County residents who were born in New York and served in the United States military during the Korean War and Vietnam War, were presented with high school diplomas decades after forgoing ...

A special Act of Remembrance at Cookstown High School War Memorial attended by pupils, governors, special guests and staff ...

True movie-set war stories from Paul Biddiss, the British Army soldier who's lent his expertise to Gladiator II, Mission: ...

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

“The laying up of the Colours of the 2nd and 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment signifies over 25 years of operational history. “In that time, deployments to Eastern Europe, Western Africa and the ...

“When you parachute out, you are dropped with a bag full of ammunition ... C-47 Transport Planes Release Paratroopers during ...

Hamden Middle School students interacted with dozens of Connecticut veterans and listened to stories about their service during an event Friday morning.

Alton goes to Normandy Once trained, Alton was a prime candidate to participate in the D Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. He was one of 23,000 paratroopers who were loaded into giant C 47 ...

A haunting video captured the tragic moment when a skydiving instructor met an untimely end, tumbling helplessly off the edge ...