It was the end of 1941, and any major British assault against the Axis powers was still “beyond the compass of our stride,” Winston Churchill surmised. But smaller, clandestine operations were well ...
In February 1942, the men of the newly formed British 2nd Parachute Battalion went into action for the first time. In one of the most daring raids of the war, they seized and brought back to England ...
A raid by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at an Asheville-based defense contractor resulted in the arrest of 57 suspected illegal-immigrant workers, an ICE official told ...
ASHEVILLE, N.C., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Federal immigration agents raided a parachute manufacturer in North Carolina, citing national security concerns as they detained 59 alleged illegal aliens.