We had a very high casualty rate." At least 1,070 members of the US 17th Airborne Division and the British 6th Airborne ...

Seventy-six years ago, he was among Allied troops pushing into Germany’s Rhineland, battling to bring World War II to an end on ... as a rifleman with the 17th Airborne Division.

Pfc. Roland Bragg served as a paratrooper in the 17th Airborne Division that fought in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge.

During World War II, he served with the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, and completed his Army training at the installation that now bears his name.

Bragg, a World War II paratrooper and Silver Star recipient ... Bragg, who served with the 17th Airborne Division, received the Silver Star and a Purple Heart for exceptional courage during ...

He has twice returned to Germany to visit a comrade's grave At least 1,070 members of the US 17th Airborne Division and the British 6th Airborne Division, which included the Canadians, were killed ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A ceremony was held Friday in North Carolina to commemorate the renaming of the largest U.S. Army training facility in honor of a World War II paratrooper from Maine.