Joe Harris, WWII's oldest surviving paratrooper, was laid to rest recently. He was a part of the Army's all-Black 555th ...

During the podcast, Anderson said the 22,000 soldiers will still keep their jobs and be reclassified as non-parachutist ...

Explore the harsh realities faced by the 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of Bastogne in WWII. With limited supplies, ammunition, and cold-weather gear, these brave paratroopers and glider ...

The parachute landing was part of a pregame ceremony at the University of Arizona's Hi Corbett Field in Tucson, Arizona.

The Dirty Dozen is one of the most beloved war films of all time, but have you heard of the Filthy Thirteen squadron it was based upon?

But approaching the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into the “war to end all wars,” the improbable tale of the Calacs and the Army’s 91st “Wild West” Division — a ragtag legion of ...

Intent on following a path that his father and four of his uncles -- all of whom became Army paratroopers ... he deployed with the 101st Airborne Division, his father’s old unit, during ...

By Clay Risen Joe Harris, who as a sergeant with an all-Black infantry unit during World War II parachuted into ... was incorporated into the 82nd Airborne Division. Joe Harris was born on June ...

Sergeant Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and ... follow in his grandfather’s airborne footsteps. For a week, he did paratrooper jump training in ...

Boot — a beloved World War II veteran, author and artist — celebrated his 101st birthday with a party at his “foam dome” castle in Silverthorne, Friday, March 28. The party, a potluck ...

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