Combat Jump is typical of popular military nonfiction. It balances first-hand accounts of training and combat against sweeping third-person descriptions of otherwise impersonal historical events. But ...

Combat Jump is typical of popular military nonfiction. It balances first-hand accounts of training and combat against sweeping third-person descriptions of otherwise impersonal historical events.

“Combat Jump,” a well-researched, compellingly presented documentary tonight at 9 on the History Channel, captures the complexities and cross-currents of one of the most heart-pounding ...

Fewer than 3,000 paratroopers made four combat jumps with the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II. Following the death of retired 1st Sgt. Harold Eatman, fewer than 16 of those paratroopers are … ...

Lifelong Jackson County resident Floyd Pratt came home from World War II with combat jump wings and the Bronze Star, but he never received the star meant to decorate his ...

Sworn in at the age of 19 in 1942, he was among the first of a newly formed group known as paratroopers who made their first combat jump during World War II.

They jumped from a height of 1,200 feet, a typical altitude for combat jumps, Settle said, and they were carrying theeir full combat load — dangling about 35 to 50 pound rucksacks on a line ...

MCPS enables paratroopers to infiltrate with combat load into designated areas of operations, gliding up to 40km range after jump from an aircraft, and deploying their parachutes at predetermined ...