It was a jump for the ages.

US Army veteran Tom Rice got to recreate his D-Day parachute jump on Wednesday — at the grand old age of 97.

The San Diego veteran carried the Stars and Stripes as he leaped from a C-47 transport plane over Normandy along with hundreds of other veterans to mark the momentous wartime landing 75 years ago.

The original 1944 leap, in which a bullet hit his chute, was “the worst jump I ever had,” Rice said — while Wednesday’s repeat “went perfect.”

“Perfect jump,” said Rice, who worked with a trainer for six months to be ready to jump in tandem with another parachutist.

“I feel great. I’d go up and do it all again.”

Rice’s D-Day jump on June 6, 1944, was with the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division, with him landing safely despite the bullet hole — and him almost never making it out of the plane.

“I got my left armpit caught in the lower left-hand corner of the door so I swung out, came back and hit the side of the aircraft, swung out again and came back, and I just tried to straighten my arm out and I got free,” he recalled.

As for how his fallen comrades would have felt about his jump Wednesday, he said, “They would love it.

“Many of them are deceased. We had 38% casualties.

“I represent a whole generation,” he said of the dwindling number of D-Day survivors.

Like many other veterans, he said he remains troubled by the war.

“All the GIs suffer from same blame and shame,” Rice said. “It bothers us all the time for what we did. We did a lot of destruction, damage. And we chased the Germans out, and coming back here is a matter of closure. You can close the issue now.”

With Post wires