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 ...

The U.S. Army soldier killed this week in a vehicle incident at Fort Bragg that also injured three others was identified Friday. Spc. Luis Herrera, 23, was a paratrooper assigned to the 82nd Airborne ...

Local News Soldier from Chapel Hill killed in Afghanistan Pfc. Morris L. Walker, 23, of Chapel Hill, and Staff Sgt. Clayton P. Bowen, 29, of San Antonio, Texas, were assigned to the 1st Battalion, ...

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 ...

The battle for Carentan was one of the most critical yet overlooked fights of the Normandy campaign. The 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment faced a fierce German counterattack aimed at driving a wedge ...

Shawn Murphy, 24, of Butte, assigned to the Army’s 509th parachute infantry, died Dec. 10, 2006, when the Humvee he was riding in was destroyed by a roadside bomb near Baghdad. Scott Dykman, 27, of ...