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 ...

FORT LIBERTY — Several family members traced letters with their fingers on the 82nd Airborne Division monuments Tuesday at Fort Liberty. One woman kissed a yellow rose before tapping a name on the ...

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 ...

Shortly before 0200 hours on June 6, 1944, the C-47 transport plane neared Normandy and the anti-aircraft fire started to stream up. “What was I doing here?” Sgt. Major Joseph Kissane of the 508th ...

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 ...

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, ...