More than 1,500 aircraft and 1,300 gliders - carrying British, American, and Canadian airborne soldiers - participated in the operation. Sixty of those gliders were flown from Earls Colne.

For CEO Billy Thalheimer, a new era of global conflict centered on the Indo-Pacific represents a "reversion to World War II-style tactics ... the logistics of moving troops and supplies between ...

Consider the Supermarine Spitfire of WW2, which inspired Pilot Officer John ... who had designed a bird-like monoplane glider in 1883 that demonstrated stability during unpowered test flights.

HORSA GLIDER: The Allies needed to land troops silently behind enemy lines ... landings in these short films for secondary schools. WW2: How close did D-Day come to failure?

A rededication ceremony at the Skitten airfield memorial was hailed as “a really fitting tribute” to the 41 men who died in ...

Germans joined leaders from U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria and the 7th Army Training Command for a service to honor those killed ...

"Country boy" Eddie Annetts was one of more than 1,000 British, Canadian and American men who died during Operation Varsity Eighty years ago, planes and gliders packed with troops took to the ...

Eighty years ago, planes and gliders packed with troops took to the skies to take part in "the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe. This was Operation Varsity when more than 16,000 British ...

The Compton resident was a member of the 'Triple Nickles,' a World War II combat-ready unit who trained as some of America's ...

Malaria could be as dangerous to GIs in the Pacific theater of World War II as the enemy. To fight it, they used hammers and ...