When the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment was activated at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, on 15 November 1942, it began life with a rich airborne heritage. The famous test platoon, the prime ancestor of all ...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska— World War II paratrooper, machine gunner, Bastogne legend, and storyteller, Vincent Speranza, visited the Spartan Brigade this week. Speranza served with H ...

Army Staff Sgt. Jared Leonard (far right) of the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment, a 2004 graduate of Rantoul Township High School, prepares to parachute out of a C-17 plane during a ...

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division, board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III ...

JOHN TROWBRIDGE “Calvin” Valparaiso, Indiana John “Calvin” Trowbridge, age 84, of Valparaiso and a WWII veteran of the 501st Infantry Parachute Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division took his final ...

A first person view of Spc. John Brunner, an infantryman with Delaware Co., 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (WSPA) – A soldier from Marion, N.C. died in a military training crash during a routine military training at Fort Bragg Thursday. Army Specialist Luis Herrera, 23, was assigned to ...