Sgt. Joe Harris was one of an elite group of Black paratroopers during World War II. He is being laid to rest today. He was 108.

The man believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper has died. Joe Harris, 108, will be honored with a full military funeral on April 5.

Useful for seizing isolated airfields deep behind enemy lines which can then be used to receive and deploy more troops and armaments, the tactic of mass parachute ... the Army was able to increase ...

Baggett strapped on his own parachute and ... as a highly effective man stopper, the 1911 fires the .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) cartridge. The standard military loading was a 230 grain FMJ ...

Joe Harris, who was believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper as well as a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute ... was a very loving man and insisted that ...

The parachute landing was part of a pregame ceremony at the University of Arizona's Hi Corbett Field in Tucson, Arizona.

The activity is part of a training exercise for the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights, a renowned competition parachute team, according to the Oxnard Police Department. The Golden Knights will be at ...

A Washington state BASE jumper died Sunday after an issue with his parachute and falling over 600 feet to the ground, authorities announced. The man, 47-year-old Elliot Barstow, was BASE jumping ...

As the US Army was training the Triple Nickles to disarm bombs, the men were also being taught ... to create strategies for jumping with a parachute into wildfires. They also became experts ...