It was also the longest distance that airborne troops had ever been flown to a parachute drop. A fleet of 44 C-141s and 33 smaller, slower propjet C-130 Hercules transports carried 2,500 men and ...

Mike Waltz/X via Reuters Paratroopers from the British, Belgian, Canadian and US military take part in a parachute drop in the fields of Sannerville as they reenact the D-Day landings of 80 years ...

died in June after being injured in a non-duty related parachute jump. Paratroopers prepare to land on Geronimo drop zone during an airborne operation at Fort Johnson, La., on April 30.