The angels rose slowly in the dead of night, thousands of them in low formation across the English Channel. From British shores the American troopers were a prayer sent, and in French skies, one ...

FARMINGDALE, NY – Long Islanders flew over Jones Beach in a WWII C-47 warbird this past Saturday at the American Airpower Museum. The AAM Flight Experience honors veterans and gives a glimpse into ...

American Airpower Museum continues its popular C-47 D-Day Living History Flight Experience on Saturday, Sept. 6, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Passengers will fly in ...

A C-47 aircraft dubbed "That's All, Brother," was the lead aircraft in a fleet of more than 800 that was a key part of the Allied initiative in the war against Nazi Germany. The plane rolled off the ...

WASHINGTON — On D-Day, June 6, 1944, paratroopers of the U.S. Army's 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions landed between 1:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. near and in the town of Sainte-Mere-Eglise in Normandy, ...

Minutes before plunging to their deaths, five airmen successfully dropped 14 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne near their landing mark over Normandy, France from their C-47. It was just after 2:44 a ...