Sgt. 1st Class Riley B. Watts III is the first sergeant for A Company 1-14th Aviation Regiment, the Army’s largest AH-64 ...

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. — The bold and audacious military maneuver known as D-Day helped turn the tide of World War II, opening Europe to the Allies and a German surrender 11 months later. But before the ...

CARENTAN, France — In an open 1940s military vehicle rumbling through the Normandy countryside, Staff Sgt. Nathan Selby and Sgt. Juan Ramirez retraced the path of paratroopers who jumped into the ...

In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder, we step back into December 1944 to examine what soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division actually wore as they marched into the Bastogne perimeter. Using original ...

Hunter Wilford’s eyes were barely visible when he pulled a reproduction of a World War II U.S. Army airborne unit helmet down over his head. But there were plenty of other military artifacts and ...

Vincent Speranza, the American paratrooper who became known as the soldier who doled out beer to his wounded comrades during the Battle of the Bulge, died Wednesday at the age of 98, the 18th Airborne ...

On a former Allied airborne drop zone deep in the woods, the team follows the traces of a dramatic World War II operation: ...

Airborne warfare reached its peak during World War II -- the only war in which the potential gains of using airborne tactics ever justified the great costs, both material and human. The revolutionary ...

As the years roll on, things change. We begin to develop more wrinkles and aches, new technologies emerge, our priorities change and, inevitably, the world keeps turning. Through all of the ups and ...

"D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge--the US Airborne divisions were integral at all these major points in World War II. But they also played a significant role in North Africa, where ...

Wagoner-area author Charles Sasser stood in the open doors of the WWII-vintage C-47 “Boogie Baby” as he prepared to parachute onto the plans outside tiny Frederick, Oklahoma. Sasser was one of 24 ...