D-Day veterans return to Normandy for 80th Anniversary of allied invasion

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D-Day veterans return to Normandy for 80th Anniversary of allied invasion

                  PBS NEWS HOUR
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/d-day-veterans-return-to-normandy-for-80th-anniversary-of-allied-invasion 🔗

Jun 5, 2024 6:40 PM EDT
By: Malcolm Brabant
By: Trine Villemann

EXCERPTS Below: (Click News Link above to view a short Video and the entire story)
Eighty years ago, the liberation of Europe from the horrors of the Nazis began with Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy. Nearly 200,000 thousand soldiers, principally Americans, Brits and Canadians, landed on June 6, 1944, across five beach sectors.
Malcolm Brabant is in northern France and met some of the veterans of D-Day.
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Read the Full Transcript in the News Article.... link above.

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The National Warplane Museum in Geneseo, NY has a C-47 known as "W7". It's a D-Day vet and they flew her back over for the 70th anniversary.

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                      FYI    check out the Link below for more INFO:
    https://vintageaviationnews.com/airshow-news/daks-normandy-event-report.html 🔗 

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That just looks like it would be fun to fly.

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Both the W7 and C47 are variants of the McDonald Douglas DC-3  passenger airplane
from the 1930's and  1940's

That just looks like it would be fun to fly.

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The ol' gal is still flying. You can book rides in it and every year at the airshow they hold, they drop paratroopers in WWII vintage gear. They'll usually also have the P51's flying cover as well.