Live Oak D-Day veteran celebrates 100th birthday

Earl Mills celebrated his birthday with friends and family at Tiger Lake Baptist Church on April 24. The 100-year-old veteran saw action as a member of the 101st Airborne in World War II. (COURTESY)
Earl Mills celebrated his birthday with friends and family at Tiger Lake Baptist Church on April 24. The 100-year-old veteran saw action as a member of the 101st Airborne in World War II. (COURTESY)

LIVE OAK — On June 6, 1944, Earl Mills jumped out of the door of a C-47 in Normandy, France.

Six months later, the Live Oak native and the rest of the 101st Airborne Division was called in as rein…