France honors Nevadan for D-Day

The aircraft flown by a famous Nevadan will be the centerpiece of an extension of a museum dedicated to the memory of the paratroopers who landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944, as part of the D-Day invasion.Minden resident Nancy Downey, the daughter of U.S. Sen. Howard Cannon, whose C-47 cargo plane “Stoy Hora” delivered paratroops as part of the invasion, will be on hand at the Friday event at the D-Day Paratroopers Historical Center in Saint-Come-du-Mont, Normandy.Both Downey and the daught