The medics on D-Day did an exceptional job, but their role is often overlooked. For this WW2 Wayfinder episode I look at the ...

The positions will remain airborne billets, but soldiers will no longer be required to maintain jump status or receive jump ...

Omaha beach is located about 40 minutes by car from Caen in Normandy. 34,000 American soldiers landed there on D Day during ...

A tactical combat simulator featuring the US 82nd Airborne in World War II. Advertisement A tactical combat simulator featuring the US 82nd Airborne in World War II. Advertisement ...

During the podcast, Anderson said the 22,000 soldiers will still keep their jobs and be reclassified as non-parachutist ...

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.

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 ...

An enormous force of infantry, armoured, airborne naval, and air forces stood poised to strike at the German beach fortifications and dense bocage of Normandy. All hopes for the liberation of ...

Newsreel footage of paratroopers from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division boarding planes for the Normandy invasion. The Huffington Post writes that " the new military town in Mihail ...