MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Some relatives of D-Day veterans are getting the opportunity of a lifetime: jumping out of an airplane onto Normandy. One of those relatives is 76-year-old Fred Krause, whose dad ...

Editor’s note: This piece was first published in The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. The C-130 bounced ...

Leapfest, the largest military parachuting competition of its kind, was poised to take off from Quonset State Airport on Saturday morning. The chutes were packed and checked. But Mother Nature wasn't ...

NORMANDY, France -- John Brown was 20 years old when he joined the Army Air Forces in 1947. World War II was over, but he still wanted to serve, eventually finding himself with the Army's occupation ...

One by one, the 36 paratroopers dropped from the hatch of the high-tailed C-123 troop carrier. Their static lines, the 15-ft.-long “ripcords” attached to the plane, automatically plucked open the ...

The chutes were packed and checked. But Mother Nature wasn't quite ready: Rhode Island's soggy morning skies had imposed a schedule delay. Ninety-seven troops waited for the opening drops of the event ...