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Video shows that Biden at one point walked toward a group of parachutists who had just landed and gave them two thumbs-up.
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David Ingram, NBC News, 19 June 2024
Their successors now crowd the town square, where Mr. Steele and his fellow World War II parachutists are celebrated and remembered as veritable gods.
—Catherine Porter Andrea Mantovani, New York Times, 7 June 2024
The deceptions continued into the early hours of D-Day itself when, far up the coast from the real invasion point, RAF planes released metal strips – which German radar mistook for a naval convoy – and dropped dummy parachutists to simulate the start of a land invasion.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024
Miller still tosses in his beloved bits of makeshift technology — attack gliders with propellers, parachutists on skates, chariots made of motorcycles — and peculiar, throwaway characters, such as a guy named Pissboy who seems to exist solely to feed urine to a truck’s carburetor.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 May 2024
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David Ingram, NBC News, 19 June 2024
Their successors now crowd the town square, where Mr. Steele and his fellow World War II parachutists are celebrated and remembered as veritable gods.
—Catherine Porter Andrea Mantovani, New York Times, 7 June 2024
The deceptions continued into the early hours of D-Day itself when, far up the coast from the real invasion point, RAF planes released metal strips – which German radar mistook for a naval convoy – and dropped dummy parachutists to simulate the start of a land invasion.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024
Miller still tosses in his beloved bits of makeshift technology — attack gliders with propellers, parachutists on skates, chariots made of motorcycles — and peculiar, throwaway characters, such as a guy named Pissboy who seems to exist solely to feed urine to a truck’s carburetor.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 May 2024
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“Parachutist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parachutist. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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