The medics on D-Day did an exceptional job, but their role is often overlooked. For this WW2 Wayfinder episode I look at the ...

The 82nd Airborne on D-Day feature in some of the most iconic images taken on and just after D-Day, 6th June 1944. In this episode I take you to the locations where these famous images of the 82nd ...

Eisenhower speaks with men of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, on June 5, 1944, the day before the D-Day invasion. Omar Bradley (1893-1981) Bradley ...

On the airborne troops landed behind enemy lines on D-Day ... Shortly after midnight the British 6th and American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions began landing. On the eastern flank, British ...

provides a straight-shooting account of how parachutists and gliders from the 82nd Airborne slipped behind Axis lines in Normandy just before the start of the D-Day invasion in June 1944.

Despite there being an all African-American battalion involved in the D-Day airborne forces, US units overall were segregated, as segregation was still in effect in the US. The 320th Barrage ...