D-Day Then & Now: The 101st Airborne’s Brave Fight in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont 🪂⚔️ June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the liberation of France, and the 101st Airborne Division was at the ...

Learn more about the Airborne Assault on D-Day The Invasion ... children's toy that paratroopers carried during the initial Normandy jump to use as a recognition signal in the dark.

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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.

The Overlord plan called for the use of airborne troops to secure the flanks of the D Day landing and to form a buffer to keep the German counterattacks away thus allowing 3rd Division to advance ...

Luce began the war as a lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division's 320th Glider ... hours before he was able to take off again for Normandy. The fighting was already raging when he landed near ...

On June 6, 1944, two young American medics with the 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" parachute ... parachuting into Normandy, surviving German anti-aircraft artillery and carrying on their ...