france, australia and other allied nations, the real hear heros are the veterans. shepard: in the dead of night, hours before allied troops landed on normandy s shores, thousands of brave paratroopers dropped from the skies behind enemy lines. some of them thought it was a suicide mission. 75 years later, hundreds of parachutists today recreated that jump across northern france to honor the airborne soldiers that never came home. they used authentic c-47 transport planes. this was the scene over the skies. among those making the jump was 97-year-old d-day paratrooper tom rice. he says he spent six months with a physical trainer preparing for this very moment. in 1944, a bullet ripped through