Instead, he became a paratrooper with the 6th British Airborne Division, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion. In 2014, a few days before the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the allied invasion of Europe ...

A few months shy of his 98th birthday, Hita was a paratrooper who made 39 jumps during the war, mainly in the Pacific region. But it was the events on D-Day that inspired him to serve. Born in ...

Several events have taken place in the UK and France to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings during the ... In Normandy in France, paratroopers from the British, Belgian, Canadian ...

Defence chiefs are scrambling to secure more planes for a parachute drop to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day as crises in ... Hundreds of paratroopers had been expected to jump into Normandy ...