US and Italy launch new effort to find remains of soldiers who went missing during WWII - In a post on social media, the ...

beginning with the activation of the 1st Ranger Battalion in Northern Ireland on June 19, 1942. Major William O. Darby, an artillery officer, was hand-picked to recruit volunteers for the ...

William O. Darby Memorial 40-Miler Ranger Challenge unfolds. This rigorous event honors Darby, the founder of the U.S. Army Rangers, and the 10th Mountain Division Soldiers who perished on April ...

They had their Orde Wingate and his Chindits, we had our Bill Darby and his Rangers, and it was a mighty good thing. William O. Darby may have graduated from West Point, but when it came to ...

This is the 31st annually Best Ranger Competition with 50 teams participating. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Austin Berner/Released) ALBANY, N.Y. — For years after Col. William O. Darby was killed in ...

William O. Darby will premiere this Saturday ... Italy — a bond formed in the decades since Darby and his Rangers fought in the brutal Battle of Cisterna in 1944. “Having the opportunity ...

The battalion was trained by Colonel William Darby, who also established a battalion that would later grow into the modern-day United States Army Rangers, the military said. The battalion was ...

That’s where then-Col. William Darby, founder of what became the elite U.S. Army Rangers, was killed on April 30, 1945, by a German artillery shell. Darby was posthumously promoted to brigadier ...

Sgt. Lester Cook, one of the original group of Rangers formed in 1942 under the leadership of then-Capt. William O. Darby. "I would love, love, love to have this over the finish line while we ...

Highly fictionalized account of the formation of the US Army's First Ranger Battalion in World War II and their first commanding officer Major (later, Lieutenant-Colonel) Orlando Darby.