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D-Day paratroopers met by French customs in Normandy for 80th anniversary
Daily Express· 6 days agoAt 1pm, the paratroopers launched themselves out of an Airbus A400M, touching down roughly eight...
Jump doesn't go as planned for WWII Weekend paratrooper
WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey· 14 hours ago“We soon got a 911 call that the paratrooper went missing,” said Detective Joshua Santos with Bern...
D-Day: Eisenhower and the paratroopers who were key to success
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOn the eve of the Allied invasion of Europe in June 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower made a...
Recreating a jump into Normandy D-Day zone 80 years later, British paratroopers face French customs
WFTV 9 Orlando· 5 days agoSANNERVILLE, France — (AP) — There was a contemporary twist for British paratroopers, who parachuted...
UK paratroopers met by French border control in D-Day re-enactment
dpa international via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBritish paratroopers landing in Normandy on Wednesday as part of commemorations for the 80th...
British paratroopers had to get passports checked after D-Day event jump into France
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBritish paratroopers were made to show their passports after parachuting into France ahead of D-Day...
82nd Airborne paratroopers cut down a 101st flag from an iconic bar on D-Day
Task & Purpose· 4 days agoThe latest chapter in that fued came this week when 82nd paratroopers took offense to a 101st flag...
Normandy churches honor D-Day paratroopers as biblical heroes in stained-glass windows
Fox News· 5 days agoThe American paratroopers who dropped from the sky into Normandy, France on June 6, 1944, appeared...
Watch: Paratroopers and drone show mark D-Day 80th anniversary
BBC News· 6 days agoIn Portsmouth in England, King Charles called on people to live up to the freedom that Allied...
A personal account of a paratrooper who jumped into Normandy on D-Day
Military Times via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAn excellent soldier who excelled both physically and intellectually, Bolland later became a...