Fourteen years after losing both his legs to an IED, Jon Harmon will step out of a C-47 and jump into same spot the 82nd ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the eve of the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower spent the remaining hours of daylight with the paratroopers who were ...

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 ...

The late Tom Rice jumped into Normandy 80 years ago. SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the Coronado Historical Association highlighted a native of the island who contributed to the ...

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 ...

GROVEPORT, Ohio — Thursday marks 80 years since 160,000 Allied forces landed in Normandy for the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France. One of those soldiers was Johnstown native Don ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first US aircrew took off from the former RAF Witham on the eve of D-Day in 1944 [South Kesteven District Council] People will ...

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 ...

PARIS (Reuters) - British paratroopers recreating an airdrop behind German defences to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day were met by French customs officials at a makeshift border checkpost. Moments ...