The C-47 that led the entire D-Day airborne formation spent fifty years lost in civil registries before a CAF volunteer researcher tracked it down and flew it over Normandy again.
TaildraggerHow researcher Matt Scales tracked down serial 42-92847 - the C-47 that led the entire D-Day airborne assault - and how the CAF flew her over Normandy 75 years later.
TaildraggerThe Douglas DC-3 revolutionized air travel in 1936, then became the C-47 that carried paratroopers into Normandy and earned Eisenhower's designation as one of four weapons that won WWII.
TaildraggerHow 'That's All, Brother,' the C-47 that led the D-Day airborne assault, was rescued from a scrap line and flown home by volunteers.
TaildraggerHow 'That's All, Brother,' the C-47 that led the D-Day airborne assault, was saved from a Wisconsin scrapyard and restored to flight.
TaildraggerHow the C-47 that led the D-Day airborne invasion was rescued from a turboprop conversion line and restored to fly over Normandy again.
TaildraggerThe C-47 'That's All, Brother' led the D-Day airborne invasion, was rescued from a scrapyard, and flies again today.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores That's All, Brother and the C-forty-seven that led the D-Day invasion, rescued from a Wisconsin boneyard the week before the scrappers came.
TaildraggerOn June 13, 1944, the V-1 buzz bomb struck London, becoming the first cruise missile used in combat and changing air warfare forever.
TaildraggerOn June 5, 1944, over 800 C-47 crews flew paratroopers into Normandy through flak and cloud, launching the D-Day invasion.
TaildraggerThe story of Whiskey Seven, a D-Day C-47 restored by volunteers and flown back to Normandy 70 and 75 years later.
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