On the 6th of June 1944, D-Day commenced. The largest amphibious operation in history marked the start of the liberation of ...
SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE, France — The first thing Ralph Ticcioni noticed was the faces of the paratroopers. Sitting in two rows on the floor of the C-47 on Saturday afternoon, the men clad in World War II ...
Day, an extraordinary coincidence unfolded near Picauville in Normandy. Lieutenant Malcolm Brannan of the 82nd Airborne, ...
The Globe has reported many of the stories of local veterans of World War II. Airmen in the Doolittle Raid on Japan, sailors who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, soldiers who fought in Europe and ...
Joe Stefaniak was earning $21 a month as an Army private in 1942 when a buddy told him how he could boost his pay by $50. "And all I had to do was jump out of airplanes," he recalled with a laugh. The ...
General Lee's Airborne -- Matthew Bunker Ridgway -- Maxwell Davenport Taylor -- War -- The Birth Of American Airborne Divisions -- "Become A Paratrooper!" -- James Gavin -- Sicily and Italy : A Dress ...
American inventions proved their worth in the Normandy campaign that began on June 6, 1944. They allowed Allied forces to shoot, move and communicate in the arduous D-Day landings. From floating ...