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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nine members of the House of Representatives, all military veterans, did their best impression of the Screaming Eagles Friday, recreating the daring parachute jump by US troops into Normandy, France ...

Day, an extraordinary coincidence unfolded near Picauville in Normandy. Lieutenant Malcolm Brannan of the 82nd Airborne, ...

Nearly 50 years after his death, the legacy of Olympian and war hero James “Chick” Hewson still resonates. His murder remains ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...