Watch: Incredible Moment 97-Year-Old Vet Recreates D-Day Jump in Normandy #TeamBongino
“It went perfect, perfect jump,” Rice said after his jump. “I feel great. I’d go up and do it all again.”
Rice jumped with a group of a couple hundred parachutists today in honor of the airborne soldiers who participated in the deadly World War II battle.
The Army Times reports:
Rice, of San Diego, jumped into roughly the same area he landed in on D-Day. He said it was dark when he touched down in 1944 and he can’t be sure exactly where he was.
Rice jumped with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division on that momentous day 75 years ago, landing safely despite catching himself on the exit and a bullet striking his parachute. He called the 1944 jump “the worst jump I ever had.”
“I got my left armpit caught in the lower left hand corner of the door so I swung out, came back and hit the side of the aircraft, swung out again and came back, and I just tried to straighten my arm out and I got free,” he told The Associated Press in an interview.
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