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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

An audacious Allied plan in 1944 had the potential to swiftly end the war in Europe. German forces got advance warning from ...

You found out just how much strength you possess, you found out that you were capable of much more than you ever thought.” – Harold Bauer, Normandy Campaign, 1944 He never wanted to be 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 ...

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.

Last June 6th, marked the 80th anniversary of the US, British and Canadian landing in the beaches of Normandy ... June we left with the first load of paratroopers, about 7,000 altogether and ...

Seven thousand naval vessels were involved in the Normandy landings, while 14,000 sorties (military units) were flown to provide aerial cover and drop 18,000 Allied paratroopers behind enemy lines.