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 ...

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 ...

FORT MOORE, Ga. (WRBL) — Newly-minted paratroopers graduate from Airborne School at Fort Moore nearly every other Friday. Today’s graduation, including more than 300 soldiers, was extra special.

On 5 June 1944, aged 21, he took part in his first combat mission, dropping elite paratroopers into German-occupied France to secure landing areas ahead of the main D-Day invasion. Col Hamilton ...