The last European airborne operation of World War Two was "testament to the skills of the RAF crews" based at Essex and Suffolk airfields, according to a local historian. British-led French SAS ...

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 ...

Only six of 7,000 'cricket clickers' issued for hero US paratroopers storming Nazi-occupied France on D-Day are known to ...

In mid-September 1944 a mixed force of around 10,000 British and Polish airborne troops dropped on and around the town of Arnhem in The Netherlands as part of the Allies’ Operation Market Garden. The ...

is a freelance photographer and contributor to NPR. He is based in Louisville, Ky., and has had a lifelong interest in World War II. This week, the world is marking 75 years since the D-Day invasion.

A British soldier assigned to take part in commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the Allied invasion reportedly drowned near Pegasus Bridge, the sight of a historic D-Day engagement. (David ...