A video captured an Army jumpmaster acting as the flight ‘safety’ grabbing a soldier whose static line had wrapped around his ...
FORT LIBERTY — The 82nd Airborne Division will host current and former paratroopers, their families and the local community ...
They were paratroopers from the 82nd, from the 101st Airborne Division and from the British 6th Airborne Division. And from our division in particular, several of our regimental combat teams at ...
He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.
The necessary aircraft to carry just the 17th Airborne Division was comprised of 836 C-47s, 72 C-46s, and more than 900 Waco CG-4 gliders. At approximately 10:00 a.m., the first paratroopers began ...
The 82nd Airborne Division is mourning the loss of a paratrooper who died in a car accident last month. According to RRSpin.com, a Roanoke Rapids news outlet, Spc. Randy Colon Jr., 21, was killed ...
Wallace was on a plane with 18 other paratroopers ... who served in the 82nd Airborne Division in the early 1950s. Instructors Chuck Brown and Mike Kauffman had the men practice in-flight ...
During World War II, he served with the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division ... and taken prisoner along with four other paratroopers." At a German aid station, Anderson ...
In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter, the ...