Epic Normandy 75th beckons

摘要

The largest airborne, piston-powered armada to be seen in Europe for some seven decades will fly from IWM Duxford to northern France on 5 June as part of the 75th anniversary commemorations of Operation 'Overlord', the Normandy invasion. As of 22 April, 30-odd Douglas C-47/ DC-3 variants were scheduled to be making the trip, with aircraft from Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK due to participate, and a further 15 examples making the crossing from North America for what is likely to be the last big tribute to those who took part in the epoch-defining events of June 1944.