The American Airpower Museum (AAM) in Farmingdale, New York, continues its popular “C-47 D-Day Living History Flight ...

Sgt. Joe Harris was one of an elite group of Black paratroopers during World War II. He is being laid to rest today. He was 108.

On the morning of June 6, 1944, the first Douglas C-47 Skytrain crossed the coastline of Normandy, France, and let loose the paratroopers that began the invasion. Newly painted across the fuselage ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Canadian Army jumpmasters and tactical leaders joined U.S. paratroopers from the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, April 7-10, 2025, for an intensive week of ...

The restored C-47 Boogie Baby discharges its reenacting paratroopers over Frederick Army Airfield in Oklahoma. Boogie Baby had been built in 1942 about 150 miles from this hangar, in Oklahoma City.

Once on board, Scarabino’s "paratroopers" will experience the sights, smells and sounds as the C-47’s mighty engines fire up, and the plane flies off into the blue. Eventgoers will watch the ...

A World War II-era plane is set to fly over a veteran’s funeral Saturday. Eighty years ago, elite paratroopers were leaping out of similar aircraft on a secret mission called Operation Firefly.