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 ...

In this photo from 1945, paratroopers of the 555th Parachute Infantry climb into their parachute harnesses before boarding a plane of the First Troop Carrier Command. The C-47 would drop the airborne ...

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, ...

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 ...

11. Veteran Julian “Bud” Rice, C-47 pilot who participated in the airdrops on D-Day giving “OK” sign 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Julian “Bud” Rice, veteran C-47 pilot who participated in the airdrops on D ...

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 ...

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 ...