A few months shy of his 98th birthday, Hita was a paratrooper who made 39 jumps during the war, mainly in the Pacific region. But it was the events on D-Day that inspired him to serve. Born in ...

Several events have taken place in the UK and France to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings during the ... In Normandy in France, paratroopers from the British, Belgian, Canadian ...

The paratrooper then took an officer post in the ... He would jump behind enemy lines on D-Day from the 82nd Airborne Division's lead aircraft along with Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin, known as ...

Braunstone Town Council has arranged a display to commemorate the paratroopers' time in the ... Archive Group The huts left on the park after D-Day were later used to house bombed-out Leicester ...

President Donald Trump called former US soldiers "the pride of the nation". D-Day: Paratroopers land in France to mark 75th anniversary Throughout the day, key events were marked from the wartime ...

Instead, he became a paratrooper with the 6th British Airborne Division, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion. In 2014, a few days before the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the allied invasion of Europe ...

on D-Day. General Dwight Eisenhower gives the order of the day, "Full Victory — Nothing Else" to paratroopers in England just before they board planes to participate in the first assault in the ...