On the eve of the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower spent the remaining hours of daylight with the paratroopers who were about to jump behind German lines into occupied France. A single ...

Sainte Mere Eglise was the first French town liberated by U.S. Army paratroopers on D-Day — and it's the center of 80th anniversary celebrations this week as people visit from all over the world.

He, like hundreds of other paratroopers from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, made the jump into occupied France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Steele had already jumped into combat in places like ...

After the Invasion of Normandy in June of 1944 and the Allied push into mainland Europe, it was necessary to capture more German-occupied facilities to unload the supplies required for the advancing ...

A photo of Joseph Kissane who participated in D-Day as a paratrooper in what was known as the "Neptune Phase” of Operation Overlord. Credit: Rick Kopstein An after action report for the 82nd ...

The paratroopers were assigned what was probably ... Sources: “Spearheading D-Day,” by Jonathan Gawne; Britain at War Magazine; Time magazine; “World War II: The Definitive History ...

The 101st flag, said the paratrooper, had flown over the bar for each of the last several D-Day anniversaries, which often serve as unofficial reunions for current troops and vets of the 82nd ...

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 ...

U.S. paratroopers fix their static lines for a jump before dawn over Normandy, France, on D-Day. (Army Signal Corps/AP) Actually, exiting the plane was quite dangerous since each paratrooper was ...

PARIS, June 6 (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.