(WTRF) – Thursday will mark 80 years since D-Day, where American troops and the Allied Forces of World War II staged a daring ... appreciate the scale of the Normandy invasion on June 6th ...

NORMANDY, France - A 98-year-old WWII vet from Pasco County ... A few months shy of his 98th birthday, Hita was a paratrooper who made 39 jumps during the war, mainly in the Pacific region.

Joe Harris, WWII's oldest surviving paratrooper, was laid to rest recently. He was a part of the Army's all-Black 555th ...

Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving WWII paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute infantry battalion, has died. Here, Harris is surrounded by family ...

Robert “Bob” Sullivan shows off a World War II-vintage Jeep that he kept in ... Instead, he became a paratrooper with the 6th British Airborne Division, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion.

By Clay Risen Joe Harris, who as a sergeant with an all-Black infantry unit during World War II parachuted into forest ... to be the oldest surviving U.S. paratrooper, died on March 15 in Los ...

Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France ... nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II. A sign outside Trinity Church, New York City, inviting ...