A Leicestershire town is to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day with events to remember US servicemen stationed there before the invasion of Europe. The 82nd Airborne Division was headquartered at ...

Delapena told Troxler that he was one of seven paratroopers selected by 82nd veterans and military leaders within the division to be inducted into this year’s 82nd Airborne Division Hall of Fame.

The 160,000 Allied troops that assaulted on D-Day, about 23,000 of them were paratroopers. They were paratroopers from the 82nd, from the 101st Airborne Division and from the British 6th Airborne ...

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. — Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division provided essential feedback on the future MEDEVAC cabin design within the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft, or FLRAA ...

On the airborne troops landed behind enemy lines on D-Day ... Shortly after midnight the British 6th and American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions began landing. On the eastern flank, British ...

Several events have taken place in the UK and France to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings during the ... In Normandy in France, paratroopers from the British, Belgian, Canadian ...

A project to commemorate the role of airborne forces in World War Two has been awarded almost £150,000 in lottery funding. Soldiers From The Sky tells the story of how two of the biggest battles ...