American and Canadian paratroopers conducted a combined parachute operation onto Bledowska Drop Zone, Poland, May 5, 2014, to begin combined airborne infantry training with their Polish allies.

In the early hours of June 6, 1944, as Allied forces began the monumental D-Day invasion of Normandy, Staff Sergeant Harrison ...

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 ...

• Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, who commanded the 4th Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment during Operation Just Cause in Panama, where the battalion executed a combat parachute assault onto ...

Enlisting in the U.S. Army in March of 1943, the Ohio native underwent rigorous training with the newly created airborne units and assigned to Company C, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment 82nd ...

Parachute infantry battalions can be used to seize airfields as an entry point for heavier follow-on forces. Airborne forces, however, lack the staying power of Stryker and mechanized infantry.

Resistance to the idea in Washington delayed its use until the Army formed the 82nd Airborne, its first parachute infantry division, on Aug. 15, 1942. Its first jump finally took place near Gela, ...

He was assigned to the 508 th Parachute Infantry Regiment for advanced training in airborne and infantry operations. He landed in France during the early morning hours of June 1944 more than five ...

Among the Americans were about 12,000 men from the 82nd Airborne Division — 6,000 parachutists and 6,000 glidermen — some of whom landed the day before the invasion. Three parachute infantry ...

The First Airborne Task Force, or FABTF for short, was comprised of the 517 th Parachute Infantry Regiment, the battle-hardened 509 th Parachute Infantry (on their fourth combat jump), the 550 th ...

In 2016, a paratrooper with the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade intentionally cut the parachute straps on three Army Humvees, leading to their destruction. The soldier involved was reduced in rank to ...