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Restored plane that led D-Day bombing will visit Dayton April 18, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A restored plane that led the invasion of Normandy during World War II will visit the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton next week. The C-47 called “That’s All, Brother” will visit the museum April 20 to 22, the Dayton Daily News reported Tuesday. The plane led some 800 C-47s in the airborne invasion on June 6, 1944, that dropped thousands of paratroopers...

US Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Joshua J. Garcia Many aircraft have come and gone over the past century of military aviation. But a few workhorse aircraft have endured, continuing to fill a role above the battlefield. Theres an old saying: "If it aint broke, dont fix it." Some aerial warhorses take that pretty literally.  That definitely seems to be the philosophy used by many countries around the world in retaining large numbers of older aircraft as the mainstays of thei...

47 a true one course. we had a number of c. 47. practice jumps in the states and of course after we got over to europe to england we perhaps had 15 or 20 practice jumps. from the c. 47. the americans brought as much as they could to the table. they only had one chance with the invasion so it had to be successful. best surprise attack from behind german lines helped establish the beachheads. for the 1st time in a conquered life supplied the paratroopers the c. 40 sevens totem towards the target z...

The gladdest care everything in the world and we need the suppliers we need the ammunition and we needed the equipment so the gladdest provided that for us we couldnt care where theres on a c 47 there to be on it lathers im sure that if we want for the go as i want for the c. 47 pulling. the missile would never been a kabul is. the gliders were made of wood they did not have to return and were therefore designed to be disposable they had a high failure rate. yes.

In our world lead, d-day. their marching orders were save the world. on june 6th, 1944, u.s. paratroopers dropped behind enemy lines from high over normandy with no idea if they were going to make it out alive or if "operation overlord" would be successful. on d-day, staff sergeant tom rice jumped with the 101st airborne. just 22 years old. he said it was the worst jump of his life. now at age 97, he invited cnn along as he prepared for a second jump. rice trained at the gym for months. this wee...

France, australia and other allied nations, the real hear -- heros are the veterans. >> shepard: in the dead of night, hours before allied troops landed on normandys shores, thousands of brave paratroopers dropped from the skies behind enemy lines. some of them thought it was a suicide mission. 75 years later, hundreds of parachutists today recreated that jump across northern france to honor the airborne soldiers that never came home. they used authentic c-47 transport planes. this was the scene...

The rest of these controls and the rest of the general cockpit. the air force job is to make sure we are prepared to fight in the skies. but every now and again like today, you get to take a c-47 over niagara falls. check this out. todd: that was amazing. todd: here she is, whiskey 7. its a c-47 plane. and, like i said in the piece it flew on d-day. a day that changed the course of world war ii and quite frankly did change the course of modern history. it was unreal experience. i will never forg...

And the next thing the plane starts to go down a little because the left-hand engine had been hit by flak and was burning furiously. the plane was going down so i heard this lieutenant, who i didnt know, lieutenant wilson say stand up and hook up! so being the last man, irving had to push me because the plane was going down. >> it was at a weird angle. >> i was the last man out. when i heard the shoot opening up, i couldnt have been more than 500 feet going down. i look and i see this c-47 going...

Was a dark object coming toward me and im trying to struggle out of my parachute and i had -- the next thing this dark object was sitting on top of me it was a cow. >> you knew you landed on a farm. >> then george donahue and fallon and chick miller they were in my platoon, they came up to me and we all were completely disorganized. we didnt know where we were we couldnt find our equipment bundles. >> what was the original plan. how many of you were supposed to land in that same area? >> what ha...

With. i was the -- usually we jump a 16-man stick in a c-47. in this particular case with my extra men in this c-47 i was the 24th man in the c-47. and i was sitting next to the radio operator, his name was irving ward. and when we flew over from england, we started to converse and it seems that irving he was two years older than i, i was 19. irving came from the bronx where i came from and we found out we went to st. valentine church together. and we had these little missiles with a little bibl...