Born in Portsmouth, Sgt Cornell served with the 7th Parachute Battalion, earning a Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) for his ...

A few months shy of his 98th birthday, Hita was a paratrooper who made 39 jumps during the war, mainly in the Pacific region.

The paratrooper then took an officer post in the ... He would jump behind enemy lines on D-Day from the 82nd Airborne Division's lead aircraft along with Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin, known as ...

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 ...

On June 6, 1944, 22-year-old Victor Nelson was the eighth paratrooper to jump in the blackness covering the coastline of ...

Alton goes to Normandy Once trained, Alton was a prime candidate to participate in the D Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. He was one of 23,000 paratroopers who were loaded into giant C 47 ...

This year, we commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landing in Normandy France, where 340 soldiers from the 3rd ...

His latest book, “The Paratrooper Generals: Matthew Ridgway, Maxwell Taylor, and the American Airborne from D-Day through the Normandy Campaign,” was published in 2020, according to the release.

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

Cheers erupted from the crowd as the first 10 of 189 paratroopers jumped from 1,500 feet above Lake Dora on Saturday and ...

He now makes a living educating young people in the capital city, but Paul Hamers was in some very different places 20 and ...

The City of Hampton held its first Veterans Day Parade Saturday morning showcasing local veterans organizations.