CONNEAUT — Paratroopers are returning to D-Day Conneaut for the third year. The jumps will take place over at the Northeast Ohio Regional Airport, located at 2382 Airport Road in Denmark Township.
On the 6th of June 1944, D-Day commenced. The largest amphibious operation in history marked the start of the liberation of ...
Heroic stories of Black and Caribbean paratroopers who fought on D-Day and at Arnhem in 1944 have been retold as part of a ...
Day, an extraordinary coincidence unfolded near Picauville in Normandy. Lieutenant Malcolm Brannan of the 82nd Airborne, ...
The Globe has reported many of the stories of local veterans of World War II. Airmen in the Doolittle Raid on Japan, sailors who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, soldiers who fought in Europe and ...
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 ...
Guided walks are being offered at a former World War Two airfield to mark the anniversary of the D-Day landings. RAF North Witham in Lincolnshire was home to US paratroopers who were some of the first ...
Widely seen as a turning point in World War II, the June 6, 1944, invasion of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day, has long been the subject of viral rumors with varying levels of legitimacy. As the ...
Five years into World War II, the Allies were squeezing the Nazis from two sides. In Western Europe, Allied forces had managed to slow Adolf Hitler’s ruthless expansion across the continent. Meanwhile ...
U.S. Army Captain Floyd “Ben” Schwartzwalder jumped out of the C-47 Skytrain shortly after 3 o’clock in the morning on June 6, 1944, D-Day. His parachute opened with a sudden jerk in the darkened sky ...