* 1944 – American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.

American paratroopers also famously used a device known as a " cricket " on D-Day in place of a password system as a temporarily unique method of identification ; one metallic click given by the device in lieu of a password was to be met by two clicks in reply.

with folding stocks during World War II, as only American paratroopers had guns with those types of stocks.

Finally American paratroopers entered the city on 30 August 1944 and Nice was finally liberated.

For the role of paratroopers in the Normandy Landings see American airborne landings in Normandy.

American paratroopers receive training in a number of areas to ensure they arrive in the battlefield safely.

In World War II light motorcycles were used by paratroopers ; the American Cushman Model 53 and the British Welbike.

A unit of French Algerian infantry, the 3rd Regiment of Zouaves, was present at Youk-les-Bains and awarded the American paratroopers their own regimental crest as a gesture of respect.

In all, 3, 500 paratroopers made the most concentrated mass night drop in history, providing the model for the American airborne landings in Normandy in June 1944.

On 16 May he was captured by American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division in a shoemaker's house in the village of Schleching.

They lasted for five days, killed 43 people, made over 5, 000 people homeless, and required two divisions of federal paratroopers to be put down ; they were the worst of the four hundred or so riots that American cities experienced in the 1960s.

One undamaged tank came to the aid of a group of American paratroopers who were under fire from a German self-propelled gun but was rapidly knocked out by the German vehicle, wounding two crewmembers.

He was killed in the battle in a friendly fire incident when a 500-pound bomb was dropped on American paratroopers near the triage area where he was working.

Two truck bombs struck buildings in Beirut housing U. S. and French members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon, killing 241 American servicemen and 58 French paratroopers.

All that prevented the company-strength North Vietnamese onslaught from overrunning the entire battalion was the heroic efforts of American paratroopers who stood their ground and died to buy time for their comrades.

The film's new climax involves a superpower confrontation between Soviet paratroopers and the American marines at Ice Station Zebra itself, but concludes on a much more ambiguous note than the novel, reflecting the perceived thaw in the Cold War following the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Model 1918 trench knives were reissued to American paratroopers.

A conflict arose between the commanders of the British forces and the American forces about who would supply the paratroopers and who would supply the planes to transport them.

The American Ambassador, David Gray stated that he once asked de Valera what he would do if German paratroopers ' liberated ' Derry.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses American paratroopers prior to D-Day.

At the Battle of Chattanooga, American forces land paratroopers atop Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge rather than fight their way up.

During World War II, many American GIs, notably paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division wore mohawks to intimidate their enemies.

The style of parachute harness used by the Fallschirmjäger in World War II is generally considered inferior to those used by the British and American paratroopers.

On June 13, 1944, the main German forces counterattacked south of Carentan, in a battle between German tanks and the American paratroopers lasting all day, 6 am to 10 pm, the paratroopers gave ground, defending in depth, and bent but did not break before restoring the pre-dawn line of defense.

The American part of the evening consisted of Paul Creston's Dance Overture, William Schuman's `` Chester '' From `` New England Triptych '' and two works of Wallingford Riegger, Dance Rhythms, Op. 58, and a Romanza For Strings, Op. 56A.

The officers were also recruited from Europe – not from the American colonies – and consisted of English, Scots, Irish, Dutch, Swiss and Germans.

" Japanese " versions of the Odyssey² and its games consisted of the American boxes with katakana stickers on them and cheaply printed black-and-white Japanese manuals.

Critics argue that about half the aid was a gift from the American taxpayer to American businesses, as $ 400 million consisted of incentives for U. S. business to export products to Panama, $ 150 million was to pay off bank loans and $ 65 million went to private sector loans and guarantees to U. S. investors.

Until that time, American sexology consisted primarily of groups working to end prostitution and to educate youth about sexually transmitted diseases.

Roosevelt's crew consisted of his 24-year-old son Kermit, Colonel Rondon, a naturalist, George K. Cherrie, sent by the American Museum of Natural History, Brazilian Lieutenant Joao Lyra, team physician Dr. José Antonio Cajazeira, and 16 skilled paddlers and porters ( called camaradas in Portuguese ).

The Band was a Canadian / American roots rock group that originally consisted of Rick Danko ( bass guitar, double bass, fiddle, trombone, vocals ), Levon Helm ( drums, mandolin, guitar, vocals ), Garth Hudson ( keyboard instruments, saxophones, trumpet ), Richard Manuel ( piano, drums, baritone saxophone, vocals ) and Robbie Robertson ( guitar, vocals ).

The armed forces that won the American Revolution consisted of the standing Continental Army created by the Continental Congress, together with various state and regional militia units.

West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945.

The " all-new, all-different X-Men " were led by Cyclops from the original team and consisted of the newly created Colossus ( from the Soviet Union ), Nightcrawler ( from West Germany ), Storm ( from Kenya ), and Thunderbird ( a Native American from the Apache nation ), along with three previously introduced characters, Banshee ( from Ireland ), Sunfire ( from Japan ), and Wolverine ( from Canada ), who eventually became the breakout character on the team and, in terms of comic sales and appearances, the most popular X-Men character.

The land columns attacking from west of the fort consisted of the New York Volunteers, the Loyal American Regiment, Emmerich's Chasseurs, the 57th and the 52nd Regiments of Foot.

It consisted of only an orbiter, and was intended to become the first spacecraft to orbit Mars ( areocentric orbit ), thereby beating the American Mariner 8 and Mariner 9 spacecraft.

The occupying armies consisted of American, Belgian, British and French forces.

In 1984, American Stores Company, which consisted of Alpha Beta food stores in the west, Acme Markets in the east and Skaggs Drug Centers in the Rocky Mountain, southwestern, and northwestern states, acquired The Jewel Companies Inc.

In 1989, a new subsidiary American Drug Stores, Inc. was formed and consisted of American Stores drugstore holdings of Osco Drug, Sav-on Drugs, the Osco side of the Jewel-Osco food-drug combination stores and RxAmerica.

For most of the nineteenth century, the American banking system consisted of state chartered banks.

The playlists originally consisted of obscure 1960s and early 1970s American soul recordings with an uptempo beat, such as those on Motown Records and more obscure labels such as Okeh Records.

American Defenders of New Hampshire, LLC consisted of Nokona executives Buddy Lewis and Jerry O ' Connor, former Boston Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette, and Terry Allvord.

The performance consisted of McCay interacting with Gertie, a cartoon dinosaur based on the Brontosaurus skeleton in the American Museum of Natural History.

The crew consisted of professionals and students from the American Film Institute, where Cassavetes was serving as the first " filmmaker in residence " at their Center for Advanced Film Studies.

The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking 1 mission.

This material consisted of " found objects " such as, advertising, comic book characters, magazine covers and various mass produced graphics that mostly represented American popular culture.

It mainly consisted of fusions of American rock from the early 60s ( such as twist ) and British beat music.