on D-Day. General Dwight Eisenhower gives the order of the day, "Full Victory — Nothing Else" to paratroopers in England just before they board planes to participate in the first assault in the ...

Instead, he became a paratrooper with the 6th British Airborne Division, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion. In 2014, a few days before the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the allied invasion of Europe ...

who is acclaimed as the first black paratrooper to land in Normandy on D-Day, has been remembered at an exhibition in his home town. Born in Portsmouth, Sgt Cornell served with the 7th Parachute ...