Airborne Museum’s blog
Events 24/08/2024
The Dronne Column and the Liberation of Paris
It was led by Captain Raymond Dronne, a veteran of the North African campaigns who had been ordered by Leclerc to return to Paris on 24 August. It included an engineer section, two infantry sections...
Battles 15/08/2024
Operation Dragoon
80 years ago, the Provence Landings, code-named Dragoon, formerly known as Anvil, took place. For this operation, on the airborne side, the 1st Airborne Task Force, created especially for the...
News 12/05/2023
79th anniversary of D-Day
The programs of the organizations related to tourism in Normandy useful to organize yourself (a lot of information overlaps from one program to another obviously): And last but not least, the...
News 04/05/2023
The official poster for the 79th anniversary of D-Day
The programs of the organizations related to tourism in Normandy useful to organize yourself (a lot of information overlaps from one program to another obviously): And last but not least, the...
Events 13/04/2023
The United States declaration of war of April 6, 1917
Why did the United States enter World War I so late? Two and a half years after the beginning of the war, just 106 years ago, on April 6, 1917, the U.S. Congress declared war on the German Empire....
Battles 21/12/2022
Augusta Chiwy, "The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne"
The siege of Bastogne took place in atrocious conditions: the american troops were completely encircled by a huge german army, and had to face them 1 against 5 ; these same troops severely lacked...
Battles 17/12/2022
The Malmedy massacre
The Kampfgruppe Peiper was a ferocious armored unit notably composed of 5,000 SS Panzer Grenadiers, 40 new Mark V Panther tanks, 40 Mark IV Panzer tanks, 15 Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyers, 42 King...
Battles 16/12/2022
The departure of the american airborne troops for the Bulge, december 1944
The day following the start of the Battle of the Bulge, in the evening of the 17th December, general Eisenhower decides to send the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions (who were until this point in...
News 17/11/2022
Passing of veterans Tom Rice and Forrest Huffstetler
We just learned about veteran Tom Rice’s passing, last night. He was Staff Sergeant of the C Company of the 501th PIR in the 101st Airborne. We still vividly remember his parachute jump over...
