(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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Sergeant Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute infantry battalion, has died. He was 108. Mr. Harris ...

Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute infantry battalion, has died. He was 108.