Retired U.S. Army Col. Michael Steele speaks at a Distinguished Service Cross presentation ceremony in honor of retired U.S.

Harris was among the last surviving members of the historic 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, nicknamed the Triple Nickles.

Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black ...

Parachute Regiment for 25 years. Operation Varsity was the largest single airborne operation in history, with more than 16,000 men were dropped into western Germany on the same day. Its aim was to ...

This was especially true at the Belgium town of Trois Ponts. Here the famed 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division along with Engineers from the US Army would block the ...

will conduct airborne operations at Wright-Patterson Airfield, the 88th Air Base Wing said. The operation will feature parachute jumps by about 100 soldiers, supported by a KC-130J aircraft.

The scientists had stressed that the idea of airborne transmission of the new virus was still mostly theoretical, but they’d seemed pretty concerned. When my story came out the following week ...

During World War II, he served with the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, and completed his Army training at the installation that now bears his name.

In July of 1943, Bragg enlisted in the army and after earning his jump wings, he was assigned to the 5 13th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division, 18th Airborne Corps, and he trained ...

He trained at Fort Bragg before deploying to Europe to fight with the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 17th Airborne Division in the 18th Airborne Corps. In January 1945, amid the fierce ...