The D-Day operation ... Ocean and donned a parachute to pay tribute to those who gave their lives that day. His first tribute jump happened five years ago, on the invasion's 75th anniversary.

Defence ministers have insisted a parachute drop to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day will be sufficiently ... operations at a time when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has increased activity ...

Eisenhower speaks with men of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, on June 5, 1944, the day before the D-Day invasion. Omar Bradley (1893-1981) Bradley ...

Part of the purpose of fireworks shows, parachute jumps ... landed first early on D-Day to secure roads, bridges and other strategic points inland of the invasion beaches and destroy gun ...

Like many organizations across the world, the National D-Day Memorial Foundation is hosting events this week to commemorate the invasion ... They saw a parachute drop at Batterie d’Azeville ...

Britain and its Second World War allies had been planning the biggest, most audacious air and seaborne invasion in history: D-Day. Since 1940 most of Western Europe had been occupied by Nazi Germany.

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western ...

On June 6, 1944, a day etched in the annals of World War II, the D-Day invasion marked a critical turning point in the Allied efforts to liberate Europe from Germany. On June 6, 1944, a day etched ...