Former paratrooper Tom Rice did return to Normandy on June 6, 2019, the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, to re-create his jump. However, most online posts recounting the story fail to note the ...
For most people, a summer trip to France is a chance to relax in beautiful surroundings and to savor the country's fine food. For Tom Rice of San Diego, it's an opportunity to relive the time he ...
CHESHIRE, Conn.CHESHIRE, Conn. — A town man will join about 600 others in France next month to re-enact the paratrooper landing during the D-Day invasion of World War II while another Cheshire ...
As Americans continue to recognize the fallen members of D-Day from World War II, Congressman Jason Crow, an Army combat veteran who served in the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment, ...
Parachutists hurled themselves from World War II-era planes into the now peaceful Normandy skies where war once raged, kicking off a week of ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. On Sunday ...
Wearing a World War II uniform and carrying mementos from two members of the Greatest Generation, U.S. Rep. Keith Self of Texas will solo skydive Friday, and a bipartisan congressional delegation will ...
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — For a moment, the sands of St. Joseph sounded something like the beaches of Normandy. Bullets and bombing runs. Soldiers charging from sea to shoreline, ducking behind berms and ...
Normandy, France, June 5, 1994: Parachutes glide toward Earth as some 550 paratroopers reenacted the 101st Airborne Division D-Day jump. Nineteen of them were veterans of the actual landing 50 years ...
Wearing a World War II uniform and carrying mementos from two members of the Greatest Generation, U.S. Rep. Keith Self will parachute into France on Friday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D ...
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — June marks the beginning of busy season on Michigan's beaches. It also marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day, which will be remembered on one of Michigan's beaches soon. A Benton ...