Pope Airmen participate in D-Day jump at Fort Bragg
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Staff Sgt. Erik Dowling, 18th Weather Squadron, left, Senior Airman Nicholas Bertsch, 14th Air Support Operations Squadron, center, and Capt. Charles Polley, 14th Air Support Operations Squadron, right, walk from Fort Bragg's Normandy Drop Zone after a static-line parachute jump from an Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft on June 6, 2014, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Forty tactical air control party and battlefield weather airmen jumped with over 300 paratroopers from the 27th Engineer Battalion (C) (A) and 82nd Sustainment Brigade, commemorating the paratroopers who jumped into France on June 6, 1944, to begin the push into Europe to defeat the German army during World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo/Marvin Krause)
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north carolina
air combat command
fort bragg
d day
pope army airfield
18th air support operations group
14th air support operations squadron
18th weather squadron
dday 70
marvin krause
43 d airlift group
pope airmen participate in d day jump at fort bragg
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