News

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Time marches on, but brotherhood is forever. While it's been nearly 60 years since Carmine Sabato served in World War II, his memories of the artillery crew he worked beside in ...
During World War II, the Dayton, Ohio-based Inland Manufacturing Division of General Motors became one of the largest firearm manufacturers in the U.S., and will be best remembered for its M1 ...
As a 140-pound teenager who joined the paratroopers during World War II and became a machine gunner, the odds weren't in Don Burgett's favor by a long shot. And he knew it. He said a machine ...
The FG-42 saw no additional development after WWII as no one wanted to continue with such an odd rifle. However, some of the parts and pieces of the rifle went on to influence other guns.
Cranston's David Accetta, a retired Army paratrooper and combat veteran, will jump from a WWII-era C-47 transport plane on Thursday as part of an elaborate 75th-anniversary restaging of the Allied ...
During World War II, both the Axis and Allies alike learned harsh lessons when employing paratroopers. The Germans’ parachute light infantry (Fallschirmjäger) unit that landed on Crete, and ...
1 / 3 Show Caption + World War II-era planes fly over Washington on the anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, viewed from Arlington National Cemetery, May 8 in Arlington, Va.
Sabato rekindled old memories with paratroopers assigned to Battery C, 3rd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Nov. 14, at Fort Bragg.