The event took years to plan, months to prepare, weeks to position and practice—and one day to execute. On the early evening of June 5, 2019, as clouds brooded over the Normandy countryside, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was the operation credited with helping end the deadliest war in human history, World War II. It was also the operation that launched the storied history of Fort Campbell's famed 101st Airborne ...

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 ...

All American: The 82nd Airborne In Normandy will soon begin to ship! Yeah, that's what we'd like to lead off a press release with but unfortunately it won't be this press release. We'll let those of ...

On June 6, 1944, James Martin was among the first Allied paratroopers to jump into Normandy with the 101st Airborne, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. At 19 years old, he had trained for that moment ...

2019-05-25T21:59:49-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a4a/20190525220442003_hd.jpgProduced by the U.S. Army Air Forces, this film details the planning, training ...

The twin engines of Douglas, C-47 Skytrains cut through the dead of night silence as the aircrafts journey through the sky, across the English Channel. Mission Boston is given the green light at 1:51 ...

“This is just a light mist,” Chief Warrant Officer Four Mike Rich yelled to a few hundred Paratroopers standing on the tarmac in Cherbourg, France, as the dark skies above them began to open, “We’re ...