Imperial War Museum Duxford recently hosted a large number of Douglas DC-3 variants to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Carl Wrightson was at the Cambridgeshire airfield to witness the spectacle.
Carl Wrightson
Jim Winchester
Jim Winchester
More than 18,000 men from two American and one British division parachuted into Normandy or landed in gliders just after midnight on D-Day – June 6, 1944. Dakotas were used as jump platforms and also tugs for the gliders, so played a crucial role in what was called Operation Overlord.