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.
Before departing Washington, Waltz said the jump honors World War II veterans and pays respect ... performed a parachute jump over Normandy with French paratroopers five years ago, for the 75th ...
The Normandy town was at the heart of D-Day drop zones in 1944, when paratroopers jumped in darkness ... I truly believe that.” Dozens of World War II veterans are converging on France to ...
The Pentagon announced it is again changing the name of one of its largest military bases, Fort Liberty, back to its original name, Fort Bragg, but with a twist.
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 ...
Before Daniel Scharfenberg had even left New Orleans for his trip to France, a monsoon hit the city out of nowhere, flooding the area he was visiting, soaking everyone and everything. He joked ...
A woman has been arrested after a car crashed into a British World War Two memorial in Normandy, France. The crash occurred at around 5.30am on Saturday in Lion-sur-Mer, the site where thousands of ...