GINKEL HEATH, Netherlands -- Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central ...
Veterans watched the jump, at Ginkel Heath near the Dutch town of Ede, to commemorate Operation Market Garden.
Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the ...
Volunteers prepare to become WWII paratroopers in 1942, jumping from planes and deploying parachutes.
On Tuesday afternoon, hobby parachutists filled the sky just outside the village of Eerde, where some of the first World War II paratroopers set foot on Dutch soil. The 101st Airborne Division ...
The regiment was first activated Jan. 13, 1941, as the 76th Tank Battalion and participated in campaigns from World War II to the current ... of the roughly 1,000 paratroopers affected by the ...
A 1942 ROTC graduate of Ripon College, Megellas became a paratrooper in World War II, earning two Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars, two Bronze Stars and the Distinguished Service Cross while seeing ...
Christophe said that a major part of the documentary was bringing the children of World War II fighter pilot Quentin ... he was one of the first paratroopers to land behind enemy lines,” Reu ...
A piece of World War II history is flying around Tulsa this ... It led a group of 800 C-47s into France in 1944, dropping more than 13,000 paratroopers. “All young kids jumping into arms ...
There are always great and inspiring stories told every year at the National Storytelling Festival. Some of the most intimate and inspirational have come from Legacy Series. That will once again ...