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A personal account of a paratrooper who jumped into Normandy on D-Day
Military Times via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoThe paratrooper then took an officer post in the Special Operations Branch of the Office of...
British paratroopers had to get passports checked after D-Day event jump into France
The Independent via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoMr Biggs, who organised joint training between the two nations’ paratroopers, said Wednesday’s jump...
Recreating a jump into Normandy D-Day zone 80 years later, British paratroopers face French customs
FOX 5 San Diego· 4 hours agoSANNERVILLE, France (AP) — There was a contemporary twist for British paratroopers, who parachuted...
Normandy churches honor D-Day paratroopers as biblical heroes in stained-glass windows
Fox News· 9 hours agoThe American paratroopers who dropped from the sky into Normandy, France on June 6, 1944, appeared...
A mass parachute jump over Normandy kicks off commemorations for the 80th anniversary of D-Day
KSL TV Utah· 5 hours agoWatching the southern England coastline recede Sunday through the windows of one of three C-47...
Mobile paratrooper veteran to make his 50th static line jump in Normandy for 80th D-Day Anniversary
WKRG via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoMOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Some relatives of D-Day veterans are getting the opportunity of a lifetime:...
The 4 most dangerous missions American troops carried out 80 years ago on D-Day
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoStrategy and scope: Upwards of 13,000 American paratroopers would jump in the early days of...
Passports please! British paratroopers met by French customs after D-Day airdrop
Reuters via AOL· 9 hours agoMoments after the paratroopers had hit the ground and gathered up their chutes, they formed an...
Watch: Paratroopers and drone show mark D-Day 80th anniversary
BBC News· 20 hours agoIn Portsmouth in England, King Charles called on people to live up to the freedom that Allied...
On 80th anniversary of D-Day, remembering 4 Lancaster County paratroopers killed [archives]
Lancaster Online· 9 hours agoEighty years have passed since the D-Day invasion of the Nazi-occupied beaches of France, and it...