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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 of his tyranny.
Watching the southern England coastline recede Sunday through the windows of one of three C-47 transport aircraft that flew him and other jumpers across the English Channel to their Normandy drop zone was like time-traveling back to D-Day for 63-year-old Neil Hamsler, a former British army paratrooper.
Parachute drop in Carentan-Les-Marais in Normandy, France on Sunday, June 02, 2024, ahead of D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations. The US Army conducts an air assault demonstration in Carentan-Les-Marais in Normandy, France on Sunday, June 02, 2024, ahead of D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations. “Seven thousand of my marine buddies were killed. Twenty thousand shot up, wounded, put on ships, buried at sea,” said Don Graves, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in Iwo Jima in the Pacific theater.
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