D-Day +80 Years. Eighty years ago, Paratroopers jumped onto the beaches and countryside around Normandy, France. The 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions were part of Operation Overlord. We are beyond blessed that we still have Airborne men who still are able to travel to France to commemorate their heroic activities that saved the world from the tyranny of the Third Reich and its sick ideology. Modern Paratroopers took part in reenactment jumps. Without the bullets and flak.