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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — An Eight Mile man who jumped into Normandy on Wednesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day recounted the overwhelming support from locals he experienced after the jump.

ARNHEM, Netherlands - Paratroopers from 11 different nations came together to conduct a two-week airborne exercise titled Falcon Leap, culminating with a static line jump onto the Ginkelse Heide drop ...

Whether on a special ops jump from 25,000 feet or with hundreds of paratroopers filling the sky, U.S. troops use a wide range of parachutes. By Joshua Skovlund Updated Aug 12, 2024 10:05 AM EDT ...

A paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division was getting ready to jump toward the earth when a sharp-eyed jumpmaster stepped in and saved him from a potentially fatal injury — a split-second ...

Bulgaria, March 9, 2009: Bulgarian paratroopers jump from the open rear hatch of a C-130E, assigned to the 37th Airlift Squadron at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, during Operation Thracian Spring 2009.

NORMANDY, France -- It's early June, and Normandy is teeming with thousands of paratroopers. Paratroopers walk the streets, drive the roads, and fill the skies of the French countryside. Nearly eight ...