Congressman Jason Crow reenacted the parachute jump out of a WWII-era plane to honor the servicemembers who made that same jump behind enemy lines 80 years ago on D-Day.

B-17 Flying Fortresses fly over Hungary during World War II. (Wikimedia Commons) ... It is believed that at least two other U.S. airmen fell from such great heights without a parachute and lived.

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

The hangar also houses the C-47 jump aircraft Boogie Baby, the rigger shop, parachute packing tables, barracks, offices, laundry room, and latrines. It’s all under one (huge) roof.

'Younger generation must know what we did': Mass parachute jump from World War II-era planes I VIDEO Three C-47 transport planes, renowned for their reliability during wartime, released three ...

“Since World War II, the use of parachute forces has been in increasingly permissive environments against … ill-equipped and poorly-organized opponents,” R F M. Williams wrote in a 2021 ...

Like many at the onset of World War II, the former Staten Island Advance delivery boy enlisted when he turned 18, and was assigned to Company H, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne ...

World War II: From The Frontlines is a six-part docuseries, directed by Rob Coldstream and narrated by John Boyega, that gives viewers an new view into the massive conflict, using real footage ...

Threads connecting Dave to his father Bob Pratt, a WWII airman whose life would have ended if not for the threads of the parachute he grabbed as his B-17 bomber was shot down.

When Americans think of global war, they typically think of World War II—or the part of the war that began with Japan’s strike on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. After that attack, and Adolf Hitler’s ...

World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and secret protocols to it between the Soviet Union and the Third ...