A group of American lawmakers honored the bravery of World War II veterans who took part in D-Day with a parachute jump into Normandy on Friday morning, using some of the same vintage planes that flew ...

Two military veterans who now serve in Congress joined together for a bipartisan parachute jump in Normandy on Sunday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day. “It was deeply moving,” Florida ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - On June 6, 1944, more than 13,000 American paratroopers dropped from the skies over the northern coast of France. It was the first wave of D-Day in Normandy. Around ...

Parachutists are jumping over Normandy again, just as soldiers did 75 years ago for D-Day. Engines throbbing, C-47 transport planes dropped group after group of parachutists, a couple of hundred in ...

A 97-year-old World War II veteran returned to Normandy on the most recent anniversary of the D-Day landings to re-create his parachute jump. Former paratrooper Tom Rice did return to Normandy on June ...

CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) — Parachutists jumping from World War II-era planes hurled themselves Sunday into now peaceful Normandy skies where war once raged, heralding a week of ceremonies for ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Some relatives of D-Day veterans are getting the opportunity of a lifetime: jumping out of an airplane onto Normandy. One of those relatives is 76-year-old Fred Krause, whose dad ...

Ahead of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, soldiers took the skies above Normandy to recreate the parachute jump soldiers at the time did from C-47 transport planes. The hundreds of soldiers were even ...

Associated Press Sunday, June 2, 2024 11:00 a.m. | Sunday, June 2, 2024 11:00 a.m. CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France — Parachutists jumping from World War II-era planes hurled themselves Sunday into now ...

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