From June 2, 2024, PBS News Hour "Week of ceremonies for D-Day's 80th anniversary kicks off with parachute jump over Normandy" by John Leicaster, AP.
Carentan-Les-Marais, France.
Parachutists jumping from World War II-era planes hurled themselves Sunday into now peaceful Normandy skies where war once raged, heralding a week of ceremonies for the fast-disappearing generation of Allied troops who fought from D-Day beaches 80 years ago to Adolf Hitler's fall, helping free Europe from his tyranny.
Eighty years ago, young soldiers from the United States, Britain, Canada and other Allied nations waded ashore on five beaches on June 6, 1944.
The ever-dwindling number of veterans in their late nineties and older who are coming back to remember fallen friends and their history-changing exploits are the last.
Of course, even before the troops came ashore on the beaches, Allied paratroopers were landing in occupied France.
--GreGen
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