He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.
As you enter the large building the first thing that catches your eyes is a replica of a paratrooper and his large parachute ...
While an Army band played on Saturday, soldiers in vintage World War II uniforms boarded an amphibious ... In a few days, several divisions of the Third Army had seized a beachhead through the ...
Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute infantry battalion, has died. He was 108.
Getty Images Units from the British Second Army, pictured on 25 March 1945, crossed the Rhine with the First Canadian Army and the US 9th Army and joined up with Varsity's airborne troops Mr ...
And to do so, they are sending in a famous, elite unit of soldiers who are a fixture in the history books of modern times. Romanian media outlet Stirile Pro Tv says that the US 101st Airborne ...
Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving WWII paratrooper and a member of ... Roosevelt faced pressure to put them in combat units. As a result, the military recruited Harris and hundreds ...
Sergeant Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of ... faced pressure to put them in combat units. As a result, the military recruited Mr. Harris ...