This is just awesome. Jim ‘Pee Wee’ Martin, a 93-year-old WWII veteran paratrooper, just did the same jump out of a plane into Normandy that he did for D-Day 70 years ago when he was 23-years-old. But he says this jump was much easier because “there wasn’t anybody shooting at me today.”
During World War II, Martin was a private first class with the elite 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He wanted to make the jump again—for the 70th anniversary of D-Day—because he said there’s no other 93-year-old guy in the unit who could do it. He’d do it for those we can’t.
When asked about the experience about jumping out of a plane at 93, Martin told CNN:
“To tell you the truth, riding around in the plane is boring. It’s when you get off the plane, that’s when it gets exciting … But there’s no fear to it. It’s just something you do.”
Awesome. Check out pictures of his jump below:
