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Outnumbered 3 to 1 – 2 Para marched into Goose Green anyway
The British 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment — just 600 men — were ordered to assault Goose Green. Intelligence said 500 defenders. Reality: more than 1,500 Argentine troops.
A court has heard how a man posted footage of himself driving around Ahoghill waving a Parachute Regiment flag he had taken from a home on Tiktok. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Belfast ...
A parachute malfunction has led to a terrible tragedy. On Saturday, a Frenchman well known in the skydiving world lost his life. He was doing a free-fall jump in the southeastern region of France this ...
French freefall champion Pierre Wolnik, 37, died yesterday when a jump went catastrophically wrong at altitude, according to reports. The elite wingsuit flyer is said to have leapt from the mountain ...
They have a reputation for daring and courage – seeing heroic action in Normandy, Arnhem, the Falklands and Afghanistan. But the future of the legendary 'Paras' could be under threat from cost-cutting ...
A major military monument will be unveiled this summer, it has been confirmed. The statue to mark the 25th anniversary of the airborne forces in Colchester was commissioned by Army bosses at Merville ...
In a new demonstration of its military deployment in the South Atlantic, the United Kingdom carried out Operation FIRIC, during which the British Army tested the operational capability of the Royal ...
Troops of the 164th Infantry Regiment, Americal Division, disembark from landing crafts at Negros Island in the Philippine Islands April 25, 1945. U.S. Army photo courtesy of Digital Horizons. A new ...
Relatives of those murdered on Bloody Sunday have reiterated their intention to mount a new legal challenge to a decision not to prosecute former Parachute Regiment soldiers in relation to false ...
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