Paratrooper Wings Paratrooper wings ... This was the environment for the 101st Airborne's stubborn defense of Bastogne. Uniform Inspiration The color of this year's uniform is black with grains ...

Every part of the uniform represents a part of the unit’s history, starting with its heroic stand in the “defense of Bastogne.” The paratroopers and a handful of other divisions were ...

Fog was so thick a man could hardly see ten feet. But in their foxholes north of Bastogne the paratroopers heard Germans talking in the woods ahead. They also heard snapping branches and clanking ...

Thus began a Christmas Eve message from General Anthony McAuliffe to his troops besieged at the Belgium town of Bastogne. Adolf Hitler had launched a desperate counteroffensive against the allies ...

In 1942, a disparate group of young men begin their training to become paratroopers under unforgiving disciplinarian Captain Herbert Sobel. Woefully undermanned and short on supplies, Easy Company dig ...

Another design element is the card suits on the helmets, a nod to the markings used by 101st paratroopers and glider ... It's above "Bastogne" in a lettering style reminiscent of the road sign ...