On March 24, 1945, more than 16,000 Allied paratroopers dropped into a storm of enemy fire on the eastern bank of the Rhine River. German antiaircraft guns tore through a column of transport planes ...

Thousands of American and British paratroopers were dropped behind German lines in one of the largest airborne operations in history to kick off the Normandy invasion These soldiers were dropped into ...

Approximately 600 Paratroopers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, will participate in a joint forcible entry airborne operation as part of Swift Response 25 from 13-16 May in ...

U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 1st Air Support Operations Group from Joint Base Lewis-McCord, Wash., and U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 4th Quartermaster Company, 725th Brigade Support ...

The U.S. Army and the National Indonesian Armed Forces, along with other allies and partners, coordinated a complex airborne assault mission into South Sumatra for the first time as part of Super ...

It’s built for a doomsday scenario. The U.S. Air Force E-4B “Nightwatch” – known as the “Doomsday Plane” -- can be in the air at a moment’s notice during a national emergency. There it can serve as ...

On the 80th anniversary of the fateful airborne operation of World War II known as Operation Market Garden, nearly two dozen 21st Theater Sustainment Command Soldiers assigned to the 5th Quartermaster ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to turn five Boeing 747-8 aircraft into the Air Force's new fleet of Survivable Airborne Operations ...