Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email WASHINGTON — Since the inception of airborne warfare, the practice of using parachutes to insert troops into combat ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Parachute riggers assigned to Group Support Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) successfully executed the first drop of a Joint Precision Airdrop System ...

Heroic stories of Black and Caribbean paratroopers who fought on D-Day and at Arnhem in 1944 have been retold as part of a military heritage project. One man was Sgt Sidney Cornell, son of African ...

On March 24, 1945, more than 16,000 Allied paratroopers dropped into a storm of enemy fire on the eastern bank of the Rhine River. German antiaircraft guns tore through a column of transport planes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FORT LIBERTY — Cavalry units in the 82nd Airborne Division have started inactivating, the division announced on its social media ...

Volunteers are being recruited to help uncover the history of airborne forces in Lincolnshire. South Kesteven District Council is holding a free event for volunteers to conduct research as part of the ...

Kingsley Glover hosts this program by Visions of War at the Stratford Armories. In this edition of the show, we look closer at the British Airborne Forces. Witness a remarkable series of films from ...

When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian navy unable to guarantee control of the seas, Adolf Hitler turned to his ...