On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

The D-Day invasion is typically remembered for the brutal fighting on the beaches of Normandy, but the battle had already ...

Bullets streaked through the sky and shells exploded in the air as the lightweight glider carrying Ray Brown and a crew of 14 other men descended toward the landing zone near the Diersfordter Forest ...

The German Paratroopers of Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6, also known as FJR6 would face their American counterparts of the 101st Airborne on D-Day, behind Utah Beach on the Cotentin Peninsula of Normandy ...

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 ...

nasmain copy 39088020698452 Donor note: Gift of Norman Polmar. Airborne warfare reached its peak during World War II -- the only war in which the potential gains of using airborne tactics ever ...

Like many veterans of America’s wars, Mike Chamberlain’s father, Carl, rarely spoke of his time serving as a paratrooper during the European campaign of World War II. In fact, the Auburn resident ...

This video tells the story of the American paratroopers the Germans called “Devils in Baggy Pants.” It follows the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment through Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, the Waal River, and ...