![American paratroopers of the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment descend from their Douglas C-47 transport aircraft toward the airstrip at Nadzab, New Guinea, on September 11, 1943. Another battalion is coming down in the distance behind the protective cover of a smokescreen.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/W-Nadzab-LEAD-HT-Apr18-760x662.jpg)
April 2018
WWII History
Baptism for Pacific Paratroopers
By Gene E. SaleckerIn March 1942, the Japanese juggernaut that had steamrolled across the Pacific during the early months of the war landed at Lae village at the southwestern corner of the Huon Peninsula of Papua New Guinea. Read more