He has twice returned to Germany to visit a comrade's grave At least 1,070 members of the US 17th Airborne Division and the British 6th Airborne Division, which included the Canadians, were killed ...
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A ceremony was held Friday in North Carolina to commemorate the renaming of the largest U.S. Army training facility in honor of a World War II paratrooper from Maine.
We had a very high casualty rate." At least 1,070 members of the US 17th Airborne Division and the British 6th Airborne Division, which included the Canadians, were killed and thousands more were ...
During World War II, he served with the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, and completed his Army training at the installation that now bears his name.
A ceremony was held Friday in North Carolina to commemorate the renaming of the largest U.S. Army training facility in honor ...
We had a very high casualty rate." At least 1,070 members of the US 17th Airborne Division and the British 6th Airborne Division, which included the Canadians, were killed and thousands more were ...
Amirpour described her grandfather as a "strong, hardworking and proud" man who didn't discuss his military service in World War II very openly. Bragg, who served with the 17th Airborne Division ...
Bragg, a World War II veteran who earned the Silver Star for ... Bragg was assigned to the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division, 18th Airborne Corps, and trained here locally ...
This time named for Roland Bragg, the little-known World War II private whose Battle of ... including its immediate response force — an 82nd Airborne Division unit tasked with always being ...