The World War II miniseries Band of Brothers follows members of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.

There’s one tradition I keep every year. When June 6 arrives — the anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of northern France in 1944 — I revisit what I believe is the finest ...

506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. At 19 years old, he had trained for that moment since joining the Army in 1942. His unit's objective was to capture two bridges and keep the Germans from sending ...

Private Jim ‘Pee Wee’ Martin parachuted into Nazi-occupied France with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) ahead of the D-Day landings. He went on to jump into Holland for Operation ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Combat Air Museum welcomed a historic World War II plane Monday. Two groups of passionate reenactors have followed to bring the exhibit to life. Airborne Division, Dog ...

He volunteered for the paratroopers and “on February 5, 1944, he went into Foreign Service with 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division,” the obituary said. He also fought ...

Historian Gardner (Tonight We Die as Men) continues his series on the Third Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in this action-packed account of the unit’s tour-of-duty in Vietnam.

Before he led the U.S. Army’s 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment into Normandy on D-Day and helped capture Adolf Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest mountaintop retreat during World War II, Lt. Gen. Robert Frederick ...