Both Crow and Waltz performed a parachute jump over Normandy with French paratroopers five years ago, for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. "There's no better way to get you out of the airplane than ...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — A historic aircraft that led over 13,000 paratroopers into Normandy in 1944 has made its way to Northwest Arkansas. The C-47, known as ‘That’s All Brother ...

Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France ... "Full Victory — Nothing Else" to paratroopers in England just before they board planes to participate in the first assault in the invasion ...

helmets display the markings used by 101st paratroopers and glider troops to identify their unit affiliations for the jump into Normandy and throughout the European Theater of Operations.

More than 400 multinational paratroopers jumped into Normandy on Wednesday 5 June in a unique tribute to the soldiers who parachuted in on D-Day. The 8,500 British and Canadian soldiers of 6th ...

The German paratroopers established a reputation in Crete as an elite force A battalion commander now led a new Fallschirmjäger regiment deployed to Normandy in the spring of 1944 to the very ...

Across the channel in France, hundreds of paratroopers landed on the fields of Normandy, recreating a jump made in the dead of night 80 years earlier. The French president attended the first of ...

Instead, he became a paratrooper with the 6th British Airborne ... the allied invasion of Europe in Normandy on June 6, 1944, Sullivan shared his war story with The Maui News.

He was the first black paratrooper to land behind German lines in Normandy on the night of 5/6 June 1944, according to the Royal British Legion. Sidney Cornell's father arrived in the UK as a ...

When he was 19 years old, Joseph B. "Ben" Miller landed at Normandy on D-Day in a paraglider. Eighty years later, he visited Normandy with fellow veterans in June 2024 to remember that day. On Tuesday ...

A project to commemorate the role of airborne forces in World War Two has been awarded almost £150,000 in lottery funding. Soldiers From The Sky tells the story of how two of the biggest battles ...