aéroportées (ETAP), or School of Airborne Troops, is a military school dedicated to training the military paratroopers of the French army. It was established...

units of the Soviet Airborne Forces that came under Russian control following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Troops of the Russian Airborne Forces...

provide heavier firepower. Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions protects parachutists in distress, but not airborne troops. Their necessarily-slow descent causes...

of French airborne units began in the Interwar period when the French Armed Forces formed specialized paratroopers units. First formed in the French Air...

Overlord (the D-Day landings and airborne landings on 6 June 1944, in Normandy, France); Operation Market Garden; the liberation of the Netherlands; and its action...

Airborne Forces or VDV (from Vozdushno-desantnye voyska SSSR, Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска СССР, ВДВ; Air-landing Forces) was a separate troops...

American airborne landings in Normandy were a series of military operations carried by the United States as part of Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy...

The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division of the United States Army specializing in parachute assault operations into hostile areas...

Overlord (the D-Day landings and airborne landings on 6 June 1944, in Normandy, France), Operation Market Garden, the liberation of the Netherlands and its action...

Special Air Service Troops. Their formation followed the success of the German airborne operations, during the Battle of France. The British Prime Minister...

night of 27 February, after a period of intense training and several delays due to poor weather, a company of airborne troops under the command of Major...

States Army officer, with the rank of lieutenant general, who was the third Commanding General (CG) of the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. During...

the troops of the school are nicknamed "Boinas Verdes" (Green Berets) while recruits are nicknamed "Catatuas". After the successful use of airborne forces...

mostly traditional headgear for airborne forces around the world, with a few exceptions—for example, the Russian Airborne Troops, who wear a sky-blue beret...

support role for 82d and French troops during the Gulf War. It consisted of three individual batteries. Batteries A and B were Airborne-qualified, while Battery...

"air assault" organizations are specialized light infantry (much like airborne troops), who are trained, organized, and equipped specifically to perform...

introduce such an award. The School of Airborne Troops oversees different courses. The Military Parachute Trainee Badge (French: Brevet de préparation militaire...

Operations). Pathfinder training is conducted by the 101st Airborne Division's Air Assault School at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and by the Army National Guard...

naval bombardment as well as an airborne assault—the landing of 24,000 American, British, and Canadian airborne troops. The early morning aerial assault...

The Special Troops Superior School (ESTS; Arabic: المدرسة العليا للقوات الخاصة) is the school for airborne and specialized troops of the Algerian army...

of the British Army who has been called the "father of the British airborne forces". He was also an Olympic bobsleigh competitor, and the husband of author...

command within the Army, the Airborne Troops Command (Comandos de Tropas Aerotransportadas) or CTA. All parachute units and most of the Paratroopers were under...

between June 10–12, 1944 in Graignes, France. During the engagement, American paratroopers of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division held the town for two days...

morning of 6 June 1944, mixed units of the U.S. 82nd Airborne and U.S. 101st Airborne Divisions occupied the town in Mission Boston, making it one of the...

the French Army. This was the first time in airborne operations troops used helicopters for air assault and fire support. But in the aftermath of the...

largest airborne operation in history, delivering over 34,600 men of the 101st, 82nd and 1st Airborne Divisions and the Polish Brigade. 14,589 troops were...

the mouth of the river Orne, in the east. Airborne troops were to secure each flank of the beachhead, with the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions landing...

converted and comprised one airborne battalion each of British, Indian and Gurkha troops. They were part of the 44th Indian Airborne Division. Parachute training...

existing elite units of Gebirgsjäger (mountain troops) and Fallschirmjäger (airborne troops). Originally, there were three companies of Fernspäher in the...

82nd Airborne Division in North Africa, Sicily, elsewhere in Italy, and France. In the late evening of June 6, 1944, the 82nd Airborne's glider troops began...