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 ...
The D-Day invasion is typically remembered for the brutal fighting on the beaches of Normandy, but the battle had already ...
In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder I take a look at the incredible Airborne Museum in the Normandy town of Sainte Mère Église, famous for it being the first town liberated by US Forces on D-DAY, 6th ...
When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian navy unable to guarantee control of the seas, Adolf Hitler turned to his ...
Mary Kate Soliva, a Guam daughter, is making history by being selected as a member of an all-women team that's about to ...
Nine members of the House of Representatives, all military veterans, did their best impression of the Screaming Eagles Friday, recreating the daring parachute jump by US troops into Normandy, France ...
University of Guam assistant professor and U.S. Army veteran Mary Kate Soliva is making history as a Guam daughter selected to participate in a historic all-women parachute jump into Normandy, ...
Nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed on D-Day, made up of major forces from the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada and 12 other Allied nations. Some 23,400 airborne troops landed in Normandy from 822 ...
Actors from Band of Brothers television series holding a commemorative 48 star firebrand flag in the jump landing zone outside of Carentan, France. Members of the 101st and 82nd airborne, Firebrand ...
In Normandy, the Fallschirmjäger would go head to head with their equals - the 101st Airborne. After the successful capture of the La Barquette Lock on D-Day, Colonel Johnson and his men from the ...
One of Britain’s last surviving members of the 6th Airborne Division which took part in D Day has died aged 99. Roy Burr was one of just a handful of its troops left. The 6th Airborne Division was ...