More than 400 multinational paratroopers jumped into Normandy on Wednesday 5 June ... The 8,500 British and Canadian soldiers of 6th Airborne Division were the first Allied troops to land by ...

The Overlord plan called for the use of airborne troops to secure ... away thus allowing 3rd Division to advance from Sword Beach to seize Caen 6th Airborne Division was given this task It was ...

When he was 19 years old, Joseph B. “Ben” Miller landed at Normandy on D-Day in a paraglider. Eighty years later, he visited ...

Hamilton, the last surviving Pathfinder pilot from the Normandy Invasion, was very active ... to drop supplies to the 101st Airborne Division when Nazi forces surrounded them during the Battle ...