Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lt. Col. Gerhard L. Bolland was a proud Norwegian American from the farming town of Madison, Minnesota. He started his military ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The "parachute landing fall" is just the same: How to absorb the impact without breaking their legs. Learning how to pull out of ...

SANNERVILLE, France (AP) — There was a contemporary twist for British paratroopers, who parachuted into the historic D-Day drop zone in Normandy to recreate the airborne part of the battle to wrest ...

Master Sgt. (ret.) Russ Battiato reads a memorial for 99-year-old paratrooper Sgt. Maj. John Brown at the Iron Mike monument in Normandy, France on June 6, 2024. Brown died three weeks before the 80th ...

SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE, France — The first thing Ralph Ticcioni noticed was the faces of the paratroopers. Sitting in two rows on the floor of the C-47 on Saturday afternoon, the men clad in World War II ...