Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving WWII paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute ...

A paratrooper on a training jump at the Guard’s Muscatatuck Training Center had not quite completed a key part of a mandatory task on a training jump — namely, reaching the ground. Instead ...

For a week, he did paratrooper jump training in Corsicana, Texas, through the Liberty Jump Team, an organization that works to preserve the memory of veterans. “When I got my wings, I actually ...

Harris was among the last surviving members of the historic 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, nicknamed the Triple Nickles.