Once in a while, I find something Exceptional; and this is one of those times! A rare sight will be seen this June, on the sixth for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landing. Thirty Eight C Forty Seven aircraft, will carry hundreds of parachutist to be dropped over Normandy to commemorate the seventy fifth anniversary of that fate filled drop!
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All the MEN that landed in Normandy that day were Heroes, and all placed themselves at great personal risk, to free others from Tyranny! The Airborne were at special risk, because they were dropped over a large area, in the middle of the strong points of the Enemy! They went in to hold critical military targets, to save their fellow soldiers.
Here is the write up on the planned drop:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/thirty-wwii-dakotas-to-cross.html?utm_source=getresponse&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=warhistoryonline&utm_content=[War+History+Online]+Daily+Dispatches
Everyone thinks about the ships and landing craft on D-Day, but the largest air armada supported this landing. The Allies ruled the sky over western Europe. The German Aircraft were outnumbered a hundred to one, and had little or no effect on the invasion. The Allies mounted an astounding number of aircraft, and rained death from the skies!
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/air-power-in-battle-for-normandy.html/?utm_source=penultimate
They proved Rommel correct when he said that allied air power would stop the Germans from bringing in reinforcements, by air attacks. He was 100% right, when they tried to bring up tanks, Allied air power cut them to pieces!
This is not intended to take anything away from the Brake MEN who landed at such great personal risk, but these airdales (as they were called then) Flew to exhaustion through Flack, to protect our MEN on the ground! Combined with Naval artillery, with some of our ships moving in close enough to take damage from shore batteries, to be more accurate to clear enemy strong points.
This air-drop would be amazing to see! This many C Forty Sevens, flying in formation, has not happened in over half a century. I doubt if a single C Forty Seven has dropped a parachutist in that time either. This will be a Historical event by itself, because there is little chance that this many C Forty Sevens will ever be available to fly together again.
This is moving into the realm of legend; and this flight will reflect this. I wish I could go see this myself!
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