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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...

The rest of these controls and the rest of the general cockpit. the air force' job is to make sure we are prepared to fight in the skies. but every now and again like today, you get to take a c-47 over niagara falls. check this out. todd: that was amazing. todd: here she is, whiskey 7. it's a c-47 plane. and, like i said in the piece it flew on d-day. a day that changed the course of world war ii and quite frankly did change the course of modern history. it was unreal experience. i will never forget it back to you guys. steve: fantastic. todd piro live in niagara falls, new york. and across th...

And the next thing the plane starts to go down a little because the left-hand engine had been hit by flak and was burning furiously. the plane was going down so i heard this lieutenant, who i didn't know, lieutenant wilson say stand up and hook up! so being the last man, irving had to push me because the plane was going down. >> it was at a weird angle. >> i was the last man out. when i heard the shoot opening up, i couldn't have been more than 500 feet going down. i look and i see this c-47 going down and is exploded in the middle of the air, hit the gas tank. the same plane that went down,

Was a dark object coming toward me and i'm trying to struggle out of my parachute and i had -- the next thing this dark object was sitting on top of me it was a cow. >> you knew you landed on a farm. >> then george donahue and fallon and chick miller they were in my platoon, they came up to me and we all were completely disorganized. we didn't know where we were we couldn't find our equipment bundles. >> what was the original plan. how many of you were supposed to land in that same area? >> what happened when i was where we were taking off, our c-47 was disabled for some reason, and our whole ...

With. i was the -- usually we jump a 16-man stick in a c-47. in this particular case with my extra men in this c-47 i was the 24th man in the c-47. and i was sitting next to the radio operator, his name was irving ward. and when we flew over from england, we started to converse and it seems that irving he was two years older than i, i was 19. irving came from the bronx where i came from and we found out we went to st. valentine church together. and we had these little missiles with a little bible and he wrote his name and address into that book, and i gave him my name and address and when we c...