President Biden began a state visit to France on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied Forces' landmark D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France. That massive American, British and ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - A group of paratroopers who preserve history re-enacted the airborne invasion of France during World War II. Among them was Gerald Peck, a former Harrison County Sheriff’s ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A 100-year-old veteran is planning to make his final jump this weekend. Elias Hernandez was a World War II paratrooper, making his first jump at the age of 19. The last jump he ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATHENS, Ala. (WAFF) - An employee with the city of Athens will participate in a paratrooper jump at a D-Day celebration later this year. Cody Brown, who works at Water Services for Athens Utilities, ...

Eight decades after the Allies jumped into the Netherlands in a failed attempt to seize a path into Germany, hundreds of paratroopers once again descended into Arnhem. Soldiers from more than a dozen ...