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CAMP NARASHINO, Japan — Col. Ricky Taylor, commander of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, has jumped 99 times from military aircraft as a paratrooper, but only once in Japan. He was as ...

FORT MOORE, Ga. (WRBL) — To earn your wings, donate a toy. That was the stipulation for the soldiers who took part in Operation Toy Drop, a paratrooper jump this year on Fort Moore. Others ...

U.S. and German paratroopers conduct a static line jump from a USAF C-130J Super Hercules out of Ramstein Air Base in Germany ...

"Placid Lassie," a vintage C-47 plane built in 1943 that flew over Normandy on D-Day in World War II, took off at Pittsfield Airport Saturday for a flight in honor of the 80th anniversary of the 1942 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Some relatives of D-Day veterans are getting the opportunity of a lifetime: jumping out of an airplane onto Normandy. One of those relatives is 76-year-old Fred Krause, whose dad ...

ATHENS, Ala. (WAFF) - An employee with the city of Athens will participate in a paratrooper jump at a D-Day celebration later this year. Cody Brown, who works at Water Services for Athens Utilities, ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- More than 200 paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team earned their German jump wings, April 15-18, during a joint airborne operation here. Operation ...

Locals in Fayetteville, North Carolina, were shaken up when two paratroopers from nearby Fort Bragg missed their drop zone and ended up crashing into a neighborhood. Special Forces paratroopers ...

A respectful recounting of a D-Day paratrooper’s jump into occupied Europe and how that mission became part of a broader path toward liberation during WWII.