MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Some relatives of D-Day veterans are getting the opportunity of a lifetime: jumping out of an airplane onto Normandy. One of those relatives is 76-year-old Fred Krause, whose dad ...
U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade conduct static line jumps from CH-47F Chinook helicopters assigned to Task Force Viper 1st Battalion, 3rd Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, ...
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MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — An Eight Mile man who jumped into Normandy on Wednesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day recounted the overwhelming support from locals he experienced after the jump.
ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Georgia – As the community at Robins Air Force Base celebrated the 70th anniversary of the C-130 Hercules in action, a select group of paratroopers from 1st Battalion, 507th ...
A paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division was getting ready to jump toward the earth when a sharp-eyed jumpmaster stepped in and saved him from a potentially fatal injury — a split-second ...
U.S. and British Army Paratroopers perform in-flight rigging and static-line jump over Unity crop zone, Latvia from a U.S.