General Lee's Airborne -- Matthew Bunker Ridgway -- Maxwell Davenport Taylor -- War -- The Birth Of American Airborne Divisions -- "Become A Paratrooper!" -- James Gavin -- Sicily and Italy : A Dress ...

Lt. Col. Gerhard L. Bolland was a proud Norwegian American from the farming town of Madison, Minnesota. He started his military career in 1926 in the Minnesota National Guard and was eventually ...

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 ...

Join me in Sainte-Mère-Église for a guided walk through the superb Airborne Museum on the 79th anniversary of D-Day. We step beneath an original C-47, check out fully kitted jump mannequins, and look ...

SANNERVILLE, France (AP) — There was a contemporary twist for British paratroopers, who parachuted into the historic D-Day drop zone in Normandy to recreate the airborne part of the battle to wrest ...

The invasion resulted in heavy casualties, with over 6,000 American soldiers lost. John Tomassi, deputy director of public affairs at USAREUR-AF, reflected on the emotional impact of D-Day, saying, ...

The surviving veterans of D-Day, most in wheelchairs, were again in Normandy on Thursday, as they remembered the day 80 years ago when they stormed French beaches to claw back the European continent ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, June 25, 2024 – A prior trip to Normandy France for the 75th anniversary of D-Day inspired a Brooke Army Medical Center interventional radiologist to ...

NORMANDY, France -- The match became known as "The Game That Never Happened," a planned football exhibition between teams formed within the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division, held amid a winter rest ...

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