On June 7, 1944, amid the hedgerows and swamps of Normandy, a fierce clash unfolded between the American 101st Airborne and ...

Such jargon proved especially useful in the planning to invade Normandy, which Calhoun said actually began in early 1942, more than two years before Germans spotted the first Allied paratroopers ...

NORMANDY, France -- It's early June, and Normandy is teeming with thousands of paratroopers. Paratroopers walk the streets, drive the roads, and fill the skies of the French countryside.

Army leaders are confident that reclassifying 22,000 paid parachutist jobs will improve the readiness of paratroopers ... divisions were dropped into Normandy ahead of the World War II invasion.