Yes I'm Dee

On June 5, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, talks to members of the 101st Airborne just hours before they depart to jump into Nazi occupied France and spearhead Operation Overlord.

Three members of the WWII Airborne Demonstration Team display the typical loadout of gear worn by US Paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions on D-Day.

The WWII ADT was one of several groups of airborne re-enactors that jumped in period-correct uniforms and gear, with authentic military canopy parachutes, from a fleet of C-47 ‘Dakotas’ onto original D-Day drop zones during the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6, 2019.

On the morning of June 6, 1944, a combined Allied force of 156,115 U.S., British and Canadian troops loaded onto 6,939 ships and landing vessels steamed towards Hitler's Atlantic Wall. Their objective lay ahead on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.

On June 6, 1944, just after midnight, over 18,000 men of the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions along with the British 6th Airborne Division, flew in 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders towards their designated drop zones in Normandy, France.

On June 6, 1944, over 150,000 troops from the Allied Expeditionary Force landed on the beaches of Normandy, France and smashed through Hitler’s Atlantic Wall.