In Normandy, where the landings took place on June 6 1944, hundreds of Armed Forces personnel will parachute into a historic D-Day drop zone in a recreation of the region’s airborne liberation.

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 ...

Over three million service personnel were involved and it all hinged on the success of the Normandy Landings on D-Day. If the German troops were able to prevent the initial landings, the campaign ...

To mark D-Day's 75th anniversary, Guy Martin restores a Dakota plane, undergoes brutal training with the Red Devils parachute display team, and parachutes into the Normandy countryside ...

From 12 March 1944 Britain barred all travel to Ireland in order to prevent the leaking of the date of the D-Day landings. The planners were particular about the timing of D-day. They wanted a ...

The Eloy Police Department said he encountered “unexpected complications” while trying to deploy his parachute, thus resulting in him “hard landing ... jump of the day and had been ...

To see why let's go back to skydiving. If you wanted to slow down to the same landing speed (20 mph) on Mars as on Earth you'd need a parachute that's 10 times wider. Or about 110 feet in diameter.