June 6, 1944, signaled the ... Hita was a paratrooper who made 39 jumps during the war, mainly in the Pacific region. But it ...

The paratrooper then took an ... of the 507th Parachute Infantry from May 28, 1944, to Nov. 24 of that year. He would jump behind enemy lines on D-Day from the 82nd Airborne Division's lead ...

Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through August 1944, this region became the most important location in the world. Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, D-Day: ...

He returned to Pigeon Falls after the war and never thought he'd go back to Europe. But just before the 80th anniversary of D ...

On 6 June 1944, British ... field armies based in Kent as part of their D-Day deception plan, named Operation Fortitude. They built dummy equipment - including inflatable tanks - parachuted ...

Several events have taken place in the UK and France to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings during the ... In Normandy in France, paratroopers from the British, Belgian, Canadian ...

The hour-plus parade down Harbor Boulevard recognized the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion at Normandy, France, during ...

True movie-set war stories from Paul Biddiss, the British Army soldier who's lent his expertise to Gladiator II, Mission: ...

A project to commemorate the role of airborne forces in World War Two has been awarded almost £150,000 in lottery funding. Soldiers From The Sky tells the story of how two of the biggest battles ...

The emergence of the kamikazes on St. Crispin's Day, Oct. 25, 1944, in the Battle of Surigao Strait in World War II was one of the key encounters of the wider Battle of Leyte Gulf. It is by some ...

and graduated from Colorado State University with a B.A. degree in journalism. U.S. D-Day veteran Command Sergeant Major Henry C. Armstrong returns to Normandy for the first time in 80 years ...