On the airborne troops landed behind enemy lines on D-Day ... Shortly after midnight the British 6th and American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions began landing. On the eastern flank, British ...

Eisenhower speaks with men of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, on June 5, 1944, the day before the D-Day invasion. Omar Bradley (1893-1981) Bradley ...