Friday, February 09, 2024

C 47 that dropped troops on D Day, with flak damage from WW2, was restored, and participated in the 70th anniversary of the D-day invasion at Normandy in June 2014


She joined operations with 87th Troop Carrier Squadron, based at Greenham Common in England. Being equipped as glider pick up, her crew named her 'Drag-'em-oot' (slang for 'Drag Them Out'). She participated in the air assault during D-Day when at 00:46 on 06Jun1944 she dropped 18 paratroopers of the US 82nd Airborne Division, just behind the Normandy beach heads, near St. Mere Église. She returned safe to the UK and after a second mission that very same day, she started to resupply the troops in France.

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