Amfreville, Normandy, France, June 5, 1994: Parachutes glide towards earth as some 550 paratroopers reenacted the 101st Airborne Division D-Day jump. Nineteen of them are veterans of the actual landing 50 years ago who had fought to liberate the small town of Ste. Mère-Église. They were the first to jump, together with 22 other WWII combat paratroop veterans. They preceded about 500 active-duty American and French paratroops. The American paratroops were from the 101st and 82nd Airborne division, and the 3rd Battalion, 325th Airborne Battalion Combat Team in Vicenza, Italy. All landed in a 300-acre drop zone in Amfreville, about 3 miles from Ste.Mère-Église. Read Stars and Stripes reporter Philip H. Bucknell's 1944 eyewitness account from that jump, published in Stars and Stripes' London edition, June 14, 1944 here. META TAGS: DDAY80; World War II; WWII; D-Day; anniversary; paratroop; reenactment; airborne

D-Day remembered 50 years later, 1994

Amfreville, Normandy, France, June 5, 1994: Parachutes glide toward earth as some 550 paratroopers reenact the 101st Airborne Division D-Day jump.

Onofrio "No-No" Zicari, a World War II veteran, waves at the crowd during the Veterans Day parade on Fourth Street in downtown Las Vegas on Nov. 11, 2021. (Erik Verduzco / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Erik_Verduzco

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101st Airborne soldiers sing the Army song at the conclusion of a reenlistment ceremony for 21 soldiers of the division in Carentan, France, Friday, June 7, 2019.

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