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The opening act will include a Douglas C-47 Skytrain — the aircraft that dropped paratroopers over Normandy on D-Day — and the Air Force’s Wings of Blue parachute team.
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Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 14 May 2026
British paratroopers reached a remote volcanic island with medics and supplies to aid a former cruise ship passenger who may have contracted hantavirus.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 11 May 2026
The team, consisting of six paratroopers and two military clinicians, parachuted from a transport aircraft, while vital oxygen supplies and other medical aid were air dropped almost simultaneously.
—Vasco Cotovio, CNN Money, 10 May 2026
Meanwhile, British Army paratroopers parachuted with medical supplies and clinicians down to Tristan da Cunha, the remote British island territory in the South Atlantic where a man who was a former passenger on the ship remains in isolation after developing symptoms of the virus.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
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Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 14 May 2026
British paratroopers reached a remote volcanic island with medics and supplies to aid a former cruise ship passenger who may have contracted hantavirus.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 11 May 2026
The team, consisting of six paratroopers and two military clinicians, parachuted from a transport aircraft, while vital oxygen supplies and other medical aid were air dropped almost simultaneously.
—Vasco Cotovio, CNN Money, 10 May 2026
Meanwhile, British Army paratroopers parachuted with medical supplies and clinicians down to Tristan da Cunha, the remote British island territory in the South Atlantic where a man who was a former passenger on the ship remains in isolation after developing symptoms of the virus.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
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“Paratrooper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paratrooper. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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