Commemorative Air Force C-47 ‘That’s All, Bother’ at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford on May 3, 2019. ‘That’s All, Brother’ was due to be scrapped before being saved and restored especially for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. What makes this aircraft particularly special is that it was the lead aircraft for the D-Day paratroop drops! […]
Commemorating D-Day – The WWII Airborne Demonstration Team UPDATE—We’ve been offered an amazing last-minute opportunity to sponsor a chase plane that will afford us the ability to capture photo and video footage of both the Cross-Channel flight and our jump into Normandy. We are privileged to be joining in collaboration with the Commemorative Air Force […]
In other jump-related news, our friends from the Liberty Jump Team have also been very active over in Normandy this week as well. This great feature by USA TODAY was filmed before the group departed from the US, and posted on June 3rd. […]
As you no doubt know, this week has been an amazing series of very special events to mark the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France during WWII. For us old airborne types, there were none better than the mass-drops from the fleet of C-47 Dakotas that was especially assembled […]
Members of the WWII Airborne Demonstration Team display the typical loadout of gear worn by US Paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions on D-Day. The WWII ADT is one of several groups of airborne re-enactors that will be jumping in period-correct uniforms and gear, with authentic military round canopy parachutes, from a fleet […]
Soldiers assigned to the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) conduct an airborne operation near the island of Mont Saint Michel in France on Saturday, May 18, 2019. Photo credit: Avery Cunningham/U.S. Army […]