A bipartisan group of House lawmakers are commemorating the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by parachuting out of a World War II-era plane in Normandy, France,
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday by parachuting out of a World War II-era plane over Normandy, France, just as Allied airborne forces did on June 6, 1944. The 10 legislators – nine Republicans and one Democrat, all veterans of the armed forces – will don World War II military uniforms and jump into Normandy from a U.S. C-47 military transport plane that was extensively used during the war.
Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., who had previously done the jump alongside Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., and will do so again, told Fox News Digital, 'It's a real honor to be able to observe and honor the veterans in the way that we are.' Crow, a former Army Ranger, said he, like Mills, served in the 82nd Airborne Division; both units played critical roles in the June 6, 1944, operation.
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