Day commenced. The largest amphibious operation in history marked the start of the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. That ...

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 ...

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 infantry battalion, has died. He was 108. Harris died March 15 ...

Sgt. Joe Harris, the groundbreaking American paratrooper whose historic unit took part in a famous, top secret mission during World War II, has died at 108. Harris began his military service when he ...

U.S. Army veteran Ed Seifert, 97, recalls his role in the D-Day invasion from his room in the Polson Health and Rehab Center on Wednesday. Seifert was among some 13,000 Allied troops who parachuted ...