We’re in Hiesville on the Cotentin Peninsula, standing on Drop Zone C where the 101st Airborne began Mission Albany. Here the ...
Vince Speranza, 98, jumped from the sky once more on Saturday more than 75 years after the veteran paratrooper made training jumps in the final days of World War II. Organizers said Speranza, of the ...
Mont, one of the most important towns in the 101st Airborne’s D-Day story. Filmed on June 5th, 2023—79 years after the paratroopers prepared to jump into Normandy—we explore the town’s famous wartime ...
The Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville has opened up a new 3D exhibit to help people learn about D-Day. On June 6, 1944, members of the 82nd Airborne Division fell from the sky on ...
As Command Sgt. Maj. Vern Daley prepared for a parachute jump over Alaska on Thursday with the 11th Airborne Division, he had one addition to his standard Army uniform and equipment — his ...
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- As the 80th commemoration of D-Day approaches on June 6 a group of veterans in the 82nd Airborne traveled to Normandy for a series of tributes and celebrations. One North ...
Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment represented the 101st Airborne Division during the funeral service of Jim “Pee Wee” Martin at the Dayton National Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio ...
Santa Barbara’s Art Petersen, about to turn 100, fought as a paratrooper with the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II, seeing action during the historic Normandy ...
On Tuesday, the 82nd Airborne Division held an unboxing event for postcards sent from the residents of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France in lieu of the in-person commemorative traditions interrupted by the ...
On the eve of the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower spent the remaining hours of daylight with the paratroopers who were about to jump behind German lines into occupied France. A single moment ...
On June 5, 1944, Earl Mills was among the men of the 101st Airborne Division who gathered at an air base in England as Allied Supreme Cmdr. Dwight D. Eisenhower encouraged them on their mission — the ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Airborne Troops: Countdown to D-Day It's 48 hours before the D-day invasion of Normandy. You are John Welsh, an elite paratrooper dropped behind enemy lines ...