This film retells the desperate night when American paratroopers dropped behind enemy lines during World War II’s D-Day invasion. It follows the men of the 82nd and 101st Airborne along with the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Staff Sgt. William Owens' Silver Star was posthumously upgraded to a Distinguished Service Cross 81 years after his actions during World War II. Owens played a crucial role in securing the La Fière ...
He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs. By Clay Risen Joe Harris, who as a sergeant with an all-Black infantry unit ...
Yokosuka 1st Special Naval Landing Force -- Dash forward -- Japan needs oil -- P1 Airfield -- The capture of Palembang -- Dutch West Timor -- The U.S. paratrooper -- Equipping the American paratrooper ...
Mr. Darman, a journalist and historian, is the author of “Becoming FDR.” Eighty-one years ago this week, men from the advancing U.S. Army stood in a rain-soaked farm field in Margraten, the ...
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