He was highly skilled and very knowledgeable about fighting,” T said. “On the other hand, he was very human and treated us as ...

Elias Hernandez was a World War II paratrooper, making his first jump at the age of 19. The last jump he made was to celebrate his 90th birthday. He is now planning to make his final jump this ...

Elias Hernandez was a World War II paratrooper, making his first jump at the age of 19. The last jump he made was to celebrate his 90th birthday. Hernandez returned from the Kansas Honor Flight on ...

The American Airpower Museum (AAM) in Farmingdale, New York, continues its popular “C-47 D-Day Living History Flight Experience” with four 2025 dates to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of ...

WASHINGTON — The remains of U.S. Army Pvt. Willard D. Merrill, 21, of Dover-Foxcroft, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, has been identified and accounted for. Merrill ...

His was a story that was sadly too familiar during World War II – a native son who never returned home. Emery O. Picotte, a paratrooper with the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, was killed in action ...

Joe Harris, WWII's oldest surviving paratrooper, was laid to rest recently. He was a part of the Army's all-Black 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion.

COMPTON, Calif. (KABC) -- Sgt. Joe Harris, World War II's oldest surviving paratrooper, died at the age of 108. But his memory will live on in the history books and the community of Compton.

(AP) — 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.