There's lots to see and hear in this museum of more than 10,000 artifacts and installations, all reflecting the simple fact that WWII was BIG ... of his time as a paratrooper with the famed ...

(WLUK) -- The artifacts of a highly-decorated WWII ... A 1942 ROTC graduate of Ripon College, Megellas became a paratrooper in World War II, earning two Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars, two ...

A British paratrooper’s outfit. These are some of the World War II artifacts on display through April 18 at Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens in San Clemente.

WW2 Wayfinder The Most Decorated Platoon of WWII - How 22 Men Stopped 500 German Paratroopers? Posted: May 13, 2025 | Last updated: May 13, 2025 On June 7, 1944, amid the hedgerows and swamps of ...

Staff Sgt. William 'Bill' Owens fought for two days during World War II. Eighty-one years after the fight, his Silver Star ...

This past March, the 98-year-old veteran skydived as part of a ceremony commemorating WWII paratroopers. “Jumping is the most fantastic thing in the world,” he told Staten Island Live.

He sailed to earth on numerous missions as a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black paratrooper battalion during World War II, the 555th, aptly nicknamed the “Triple Nickles.” At his ...

A World War II-era plane is set to fly over a veteran’s funeral Saturday. Eighty years ago, elite paratroopers were leaping out of similar aircraft on a secret mission called Operation Firefly ...

An American paratrooper who became a legend in Belgium during World War II for carrying beer in his helmet to give to the wounded has died, the Army’s 18th Airborne Corps said Thursday.

(U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller) "It was sung to essentially make people quit, to rethink their selection to be a paratrooper in World War II when the airborne started," Darren Cinatl ...