In Normandy, where the landings took place on June 6 1944, hundreds of Armed Forces personnel will parachute into a historic D-Day drop zone in a recreation of the region’s airborne liberation.

A rare World War II 'pigeon parachute' used to carry messages to the French resistance in Normandy ahead of D-Day landings has been found in a tatty old shoebox. The artifact was donated by a ...

I've been interested in trying skydiving for decades, but finally decided to try it at the age of 60. I get why people love ...

Read our full story and see landing video ... we're the last — way back in the day, Apollo did a video after all their testing was over about the Apollo parachute system. And the title of ...

Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the ...

Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the ...

Part of the purpose of fireworks shows, parachute jumps ... Air Force captain who served in the 452nd Bomb Group. Of the D-Day landings, he recalled seeing from his aircraft “a big, big chunk ...

The pocket on the other leg holds energy bars and a 150-foot rope, plus a rappel device in case of a treetop landing. An oversize butt pouch contains a tent and a stuff sack for the parachute.

Hours before the warships began their bombardment and the landing craft motored towards ... And while the 133,000 men involved in D-Day came from all over Britain, the Commonwealth and the USA ...

D-Day: Paratroopers land in France ... 75 years after their first landing, accompanied by members of the Army's Parachute Regiment display team.