But in his free time, Stemkens roams the nearby forests on both sides of the border, armed with the metal detector he uses to ...

On June 7, 1944, amid the hedgerows and swamps of Normandy, a fierce clash unfolded between the American 101st Airborne and Germany’s elite paratroopers. Despite being dangerously short on ...

During World War II, the armed forces of many countries used the C-47, modified DC-3s for the transport of troops, cargo, and wounded. More than 10,000 aircraft were produced in Long Beach and Santa ...

As part of the ambitious but ill-fated Operation Market Garden, British paratroopers were dropped deep behind enemy lines to seize key Dutch bridges. The fiercest resistance met them at Arnhem ...

How Old is That Silk Artifact? ... has been used for everything from the robes of Byzantine emperors to the parachutes of World War II paratroopers. In ancient China, the birthplace of silk, ...

Sgt. Joe Harris lived a beautiful life. 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 ...

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 ...

Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving WWII paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute infantry battalion, has died. Here, Harris is surrounded by family ...

Welcome to the stark concrete-pillbox atrium of the Louisiana Memorial Pavilion, the main entrance to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.You'll likely feel such visceral emotions in the atrium ...

Cool, who died in 1995, was a Marshall resident and a paratrooper in World War II. ... Cool said he learned last week that his father’s story and artifacts would be featured at the museum.

Photo by Deb Gau Oliver and Cooper Stern got an up-close chance to see what WWII soldiers’ gear was like, during “Reenactment Day” at the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum near Granite Falls.

(WLUK) -- The artifacts of a highly-decorated WWII veteran from Fond du Lac, will permanently be displayed at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison.. On Sept. 17, the museum will open a new ...