On a brief furlough from his Army unit, Charles Audet was visiting Paris in December 1944 when Germany launched its last major offensive of World War II, which became known as the Battle of the Bulge.

As a young man, U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Connor Cozad grew up watching Band of Brothers, a 2001 HBO miniseries depicting the history of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry ...

Pope Air Force Base firefighters drag fire hoses in front of a C-141 that was destroyed when an F-16 crashed into it, after a mid-air collision with a C-130 over the North Carolina base. (Cindy ...

He was one of the last surviving members of the all-Black 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, nicknamed the Triple Nickels. Sgt. Joe Harris, who was believed to be the oldest surviving World War II ...

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. – The disastrous accident at then-Pope Air Force Bases’ “Green Ramp” remains one of the most tragic in the history of the U.S. Army. On Mar. 23, 1994, an F-16D Fighting Falcon ...

(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. Harris died ...

In this photo from 1945, a C-47 of Troop Carrier Command carries parachutists of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion to the scene of a remote fire in Wallowa forest, Oregon. An event in Pendleton ...