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American Airpower Museum continues its popular C-47 D-Day Living History Flight Experience on Saturday, Sept. 6, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Passengers will fly in ...

The American Airpower Museum (AAM) in Farmingdale, New York, continues its popular “C-47 D-Day Living History Flight Experience” with four 2025 dates to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — On D-Day, June 6, 1944, paratroopers of the U.S. Army's 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions landed between 1:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. near and in the town of Sainte-Mere-Eglise in Normandy, ...

More than 13,000 paratroopers were flown from bases in southern England to France’s Cotentin Peninsula aboard 1,432 C-47 Dakota airplanes. An additional 3,937 glider infantry with weapons, medical, ...

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 ...

At 00:52 on June 6, 1944, the first phase of Operation Overlord began. On the ground, occupied France awaited the Allied airborne pathfinders preparing to jump. The transport aircraft, down low and ...

A C-47 aircraft dubbed "That's All, Brother," was the lead aircraft in a fleet of more than 800 that was a key part of the Allied initiative in the war against Nazi Germany. The plane rolled off the ...

Editor’s Note: As the 80th anniversary of D-Day nears, the global fight for democracy continues. CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper speaks with World War II veterans and ...