168K views · 3.9K reactions | National Airborne Day The first official Army parachute jump was on August 16, 1940. This validated the insertion of U.S. ground forces behind enemy lines. In 2001, President George W. Bush designated August 16 as National Airborne Day. All Americans, may you always have fair winds and soft landings! #NationalAirborneDay #AATW #ThrowbackThursday | 82nd Airborne Division | Facebook

Happy 104th birthday to the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division! Watch paratroopers from this historic division jump from their aircraft during the inaugural “All American Presents from Paratroopers” event on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in 2019. 📽️: DVIDS/Sgt. James Hobbs | USO

Utah Beach, 1944 - 2025 Saint-Marcouf 82nd Airborne Division "American paratroopers having made successful landings on the continent move cautiously through a French churchyard, at St. Marcouf, Utah Beach, France. Their rifles at the ready, they move into the interior as the men on the right take cover and concealment behind a bush." (Source: NARA) #omahabeach #normandy #normandie #dday #ddayanniversary #normandy1944 #normandy #ww2veteran #debarquementnormandie #normandylandings #ww2reenactment

3.4K views · 132 reactions | The Normandy invasion required Allied control of the air. The USAAF strategic bombing campaign achieved this by crippling the Luftwaffe’s fighter force in battles over Germany before D-Day. USAAF bombers also destroyed airfields that could threaten the invasion and continued to hit them after D-Day. #DDay80 #DDay | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | Facebook