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The U.S. Army marked its 250th anniversary with a grand parade in Washington, D.C. on June 14. Featuring WWII-era uniforms, ...
“He went there in 1944, he was 101st airborne 502 regiment parachute jumper so on D-Day, June 6th at 12:31 in the morning, he was one of the first paratroopers to land behind enemy lines,” Reu ...
Author Denis van den Brink explains the course of a D-Day battle fought by the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division on June 6, 1944, as present-day Screaming Eagles and World War II reenactors listen ...
Santa Barbara’s Art Petersen, about to turn 100, fought as a paratrooper with the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II, seeing action during the historic Normandy ...
The World War II era military Jeep had a reputation for ruggedness, ... Portraying a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne is among the living history impressions that Darrell Nolen depicts.
The 101st Airborne just happened to be in the right place at the right time to get Old Abe on its insignia. In 1861, before the outbreak of the Civil War, a member of the Ojibwe tribe captured a ...
James “Pee Wee” Martin — a locally celebrated and much-loved World War II veteran who parachuted into France with Allied troops on D-Day — died Sunday, Patriot Day, according to his family ...
WWII veteran with US 101st Airborne Division dies at 101. Washington (AFP) – A US paratrooper who participated in the 1944 D-Day invasion, and lived to reenact the famed World War II landing 75 ...
Jim "Pee Wee" Martin's funeral was attended by more than 500 soldiers of 101st Airborne Division, ... Ohio, was one of the first paratroopers to jump on D-Day during World War II.
SAN DIEGO — Tom Rice, a World War II Screaming Eagle legend of the 101st Airborne, died Thursday at age 101, according to Honor Flight San Diego. "It is hard when we lose our heroes, and today ...
The 101st Airborne Division conducted an air assault demonstration along with Dutch soldiers on Tuesday for the anniversary of Operation Market Garden in 1944. On Tuesday afternoon, parachutists ...