The Allied forces launched mission D-Day on the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. It was the largest amphibious ...

The U.S. and Great Britain would lead the Allied effort in the development and use of combat gliders for the remainder of the war. The U.S. military for its part, after prototype testing at Wright ...

reveals the critical role gliders played in World War II offensives. Through rare archival footage and photographs, the film places the audience right at the center of the action in the dangerous ...

One of those rare aircraft is the Waco CG-4 troop glider. Early in World War II, the Germans had had success using gliders to land troops in combat zones, so the U.S. Army decided to develop a ...

Technical Sergeant Clinton Hedrick was assigned to Company I, 194th Glider Infantry ... evacuated after the castle was taken.” World War II came to a formal end on Sept. 2, 1945, when Japanese ...

Three airmen who died during a World War II bombing raid have been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday. The mission was carried out with a B-25C "Mitchell" bomber.