97-year-old WW2 paratrooper vet returns to Normandy to recreate his D-Day jump." Although the X post did not specify when the clip was recorded, the fact it was uploaded on the 80th anniversary of ...

A World War II-era plane is set to fly over a veteran’s funeral Saturday. Eighty years ago, elite paratroopers were leaping out of similar aircraft on a secret mission called Operation Firefly.

He sailed to earth on numerous missions as a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black paratrooper battalion during World War II, the 555th, aptly nicknamed the “Triple Nickles.” At his ...

“There’s no doubt about that. I was very fortunate.” KEY DATES World War II marked the first time paratroopers had been used in warfare. Some key dates: July 1940: First U.S. airborne unit forme ...

(U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller) "It was sung to essentially make people quit, to rethink their selection to be a paratrooper in World War II when the airborne started," Darren Cinatl ...

Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving WWII paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute infantry battalion, has died. Here, Harris is surrounded by family ...

By Clay Risen Joe Harris, who as a sergeant with an all-Black infantry unit during World War II parachuted into forest ... to be the oldest surviving U.S. paratrooper, died on March 15 in Los ...

(AP) - Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute infantry battalion, has died. He was 108.