FORT BRAGG, N.C. - "For some reason, we made it back," said Jesse Oxendine. Saturday was the final reunion for veterans of the former World War II unit, the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd ...

Major Robert Swenson USAFR (Retired), of Bellevue, will be awarded the Bronze Star medal on Aug. 10 for his actions in the last major airborne operation of World War II in Europe. The award will be ...

MADISON TOWNSHIP – James Shoemaker's war was short, nasty and lucky all at the same time. Shoemaker, 90, was a glider infantryman attached to the 101st Airborne during Operation Market Garden in ...

When 20-year old Jackson County native Fletcher Williams was drafted Nov. 18, 1942, for service in World War II, he became a participant in some of the most historic events of the 20th Century. The ...

Medics assigned to the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment rest by their Horsa glider on D-Day. The unit provided reinforcements to the 505th, 507th and 508th parachute infantry regiments that participated ...

Once there were 9,000 of them, men of the 17th U.S. Airborne Division, drifting down on Nazi Germany beneath clouds of white parachutes. The date was March 24, 1945, and by day's end 1,070 were dead.