From airborne drops over Europe to the hands of collectors today, the WWII paratrooper helmet is an artifact steeped in history. In this video, we restore and repaint a paratrooper helmet, walking ...

The experience at battle solidified Howard Buford’s approach to life. ‘I don’t carry grudges around. I don’t carry anger around.” ...

Sgt. 1st Class Riley B. Watts III is the first sergeant for A Company 1-14th Aviation Regiment, the Army’s largest AH-64 ...

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. — The bold and audacious military maneuver known as D-Day helped turn the tide of World War II, opening Europe to the Allies and a German surrender 11 months later. But before the ...

Hunter Wilford’s eyes were barely visible when he pulled a reproduction of a World War II U.S. Army airborne unit helmet down over his head. But there were plenty of other military artifacts and ...

On a former Allied airborne drop zone deep in the woods, the team follows the traces of a dramatic World War II operation: British 3-inch and 2-inch mortar tails, an exploded Mills grenade and a ...

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 ...

This captivating documentary explores the careers of military parachute jumpers in World War II and their astonishing bravado as they prepared for deployment behind enemy lines without immediate ...

"D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge--the US Airborne divisions were integral at all these major points in World War II. But they also played a significant role in North Africa, where ...

As the years roll on, things change. We begin to develop more wrinkles and aches, new technologies emerge, our priorities change and, inevitably, the world keeps turning. Through all of the ups and ...

Wagoner-area author Charles Sasser stood in the open doors of the WWII-vintage C-47 “Boogie Baby” as he prepared to parachute onto the plans outside tiny Frederick, Oklahoma. Sasser was one of 24 ...