Lt. Col. Gerhard L. Bolland was a proud Norwegian American from the farming town of Madison, Minnesota. He started his military career in 1926 in the Minnesota National Guard and was eventually ...
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- As the 80th commemoration of D-Day approaches on June 6 a group of veterans in the 82nd Airborne traveled to Normandy for a series of tributes and celebrations. One North ...
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Guided Tour of Normandy’s Airborne Museum
Join me in Sainte-Mère-Église for a guided walk through the superb Airborne Museum on the 79th anniversary of D-Day. We step beneath an original C-47, check out fully kitted jump mannequins, and look ...
Eighty years ago, hours before the Allied forces launched a million personnel across the English Channel to fight Hitler’s Third Reich in Fortress Europe, U.S. and British paratroopers painted their ...
Minutes before plunging to their deaths, five airmen successfully dropped 14 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne near their landing mark over Normandy, France from their C-47. It was just after 2:44 a ...
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How One U.S. Division Held a Bridge Against a Swarm of Nazis
We revisit the La Fière causeway, one of Normandy’s most critical D-Day battlefields. Between June 6 and 9, 1944, paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division fought off repeated German counterattacks ...
Actors from Band of Brothers television series holding a commemorative 48 star firebrand flag in the jump landing zone outside of Carentan, France. Members of the 101st and 82nd airborne, Firebrand ...
Let us not lose sight of what it has meant to be an American soldier, sailor, Marine and aviator, and the role Hoosiers ...
A Cumberland County World War II veteran is headed to France later this year for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy. Retired Army Col. Sam Kitchen, who turns 98 on April 5, said ...
NORMANDY, France -- The match became known as "The Game That Never Happened," a planned football exhibition between teams formed within the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division, held amid a winter rest ...
Those are the words visitors often hear when entering the Normandy Visitor Center. “That’s what they call it here … not ‘seeing a grave,’ but ‘visiting a soldier,’” wrote Joseph Dunn, of New Orleans.
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