XENIA — Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1944, the start of D-Day, Jim Martin, a 23-year-old U.S. Army paratrooper, made his first combat jump amid enemy fire. He and his fellow troops in the ...

The jump was Falvey’s 26th jump. “I am living the dream,” he said. Falvey, a World War II veteran of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment made his first combat jump on D-Day.

Colorado Congressman Jason Crow leads jump over Normandy from C-47 that led invasion fleet on D-Day 02:11. As Americans continue to recognize the fallen members of D-Day from World War II ...

The air show is the world’s largest World War II paratroop drop, said Scott Buie of Thunder Over Michigan. More than 250 re-enactors in authentic military uniforms bring to life the sights ...

HERINGTON – The first time Eli Hernandez jumped out of an airplane, he didn’t have much choice. It was 1943, World War II was in full swing and the Kanopolis native was a paratrooper in the Army.