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D-Day Squadron Marks Milestone Atlantic Crossing

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D-Day Squadron Marks Milestone Atlantic Crossing
https://www.flyingmag.com/d-day-squadron-marks-milestone-atlantic-crossing

By Julie Boatman / Flying Magazine / www.flyingmag.com / May 23, 2019

A group of historic Douglas C-47s make a successful Atlantic crossing for the Normandy commemoration.

“When the kids came over in 1944, they didn’t have GPS…they didn’t have 500 hours of time in cockpit between them,” says Doug Rozendaal, pilot of That’s All Brother, a Douglas C-47 joining the 2019 D-Day Squadron in an epic trip across the Atlantic Ocean this week. He considers his crew very fortunate: Not only did they have advanced tools and weather reporting (and 50,000 hours of experience in the cockpit), but they also didn't see much of the water during the entire crossing. “We were on top of the clouds nearly the entire way. As an Iowa farmer, it was easy to imagine that there was nothing but cornfields underneath.” The psychological boost he found was incredible.

The North Atlantic hadn’t witnessed the crossing of a Pan Am Airways Douglas DC-3 flight since 1963. So when Clipper Tabitha May landed at Prestwick on Tuesday, May 21, it’s no wonder her arrival attracted much attention. She was the first to arrive of the 2019 D-Day Squadron. The 1945-built airplane was originally designated as a C-47 (the military version of the airplane), and she’s joining a dozen more U.S.based Douglas DC-3/C-47 aircraft in crossing the ocean to participate in a series of commemorative events led by Daks Over Normandy in Duxford, England, and Caen, France, from June 2 to 9, to honor the 75th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy—we know it as D-Day....”

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Douglas C-47 aircraft representing the D-Day Squadron line up at Oxford, Connecticut.
Photo Courtesy John Lott
 

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What a great tribute for the 75th anniversary. I see they all have their D-Day ID stripes painted on. Love to see the old Dakotas flying again. Wish I could be there. Most have now gone, but they were ubiquitous in most western air forces in the 40s and 50s. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 

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A good friend of mine graduated from B-26 flight school in 1944. His Sergeant handed him the keys to a brand new B-26, said take it to England and try not to lose it on the way. He didn’t.

He flew 24 missions over Europe before being shot down and spent the rest of the war in a POW Camp.

One of the C-47’s spent a day or two at my Airport on the way to Europe.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0Dv...reene_County_Lewis_A_Jackson_Regional_Airport

Cheers
 
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We have a superb Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario where we have only 1 of 2 remaining flight worthy Lancaster bombers. She flies on special events in our area.
They will also be having an event at the museum celebrating D Day with a lovely meal and the Glenn Miller Band will be entertaining everyone. One of the prizes to be won is a flight for 10 in the museum's veteran C-47 Dakota, which flew over the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.
 
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