I jumped from D-Day Doll during the 75th-anniversary event - first wave #2 out of the door. Amazing experience to jump with great men in celebration of even greater men!
I sure hope to be alive at age 94, be able to see this for the 100th anniversary of D-Day. There were hundreds and hundreds of men dropping from the skies in 1944. I believe the ones who didn't make it home, I truly believe they will be dropping in another sky singing with joy.
Returning to Normandy, one of the aircraft dropping parachutists, in the third echelon tail number 348608 with the yellow cockpit Id letters "CD" is "Betsy's Biscuit Bomber", a C-47B built in 1943. It was flown from the Estrella Warbirds Museum collection here at the old WWII Estrella Army Air Corp base outside of Paso Robles, California, U.S.A. This aircraft's last military U.S. missions was flying the Berlin Airlift, it was sold to Israel and was later purchased back from the Israeli Air Force and refurbished, there is a sign in Hebrew painted on the lavatory-door that roughly reads, "The only replacement for a Dakota, is another Dakota". The plane was a military transport it's whole life and never converted for civilian us. It still has all of it's original equipment to include the 1943 over-sized desert type sand shield air-scoops atop the engines nacelles and the gear it used for towing combat gliders at Arnhem. It has participated in many jumps and I hope they have a smooth and safe flight there and back. God bless all Veterans this day, their day as we remember them.
Thank you very much for posting this. What an incredible experience to see all those planes and all the parachutists.
Hats off to everyone involved in getting this amazing recreation into the air. Very emotive. Well done.
I jumped from D-Day Doll during the 75th-anniversary event - first wave #2 out of the door. Amazing experience to jump with great men in celebration of even greater men!
Thanks for your post and remembering to those great men.
I sure hope to be alive at age 94, be able to see this for the 100th anniversary of D-Day. There were hundreds and hundreds of men dropping from the skies in 1944. I believe the ones who didn't make it home, I truly believe they will be dropping in another sky singing with joy.
Thanks for sharing this Great-Video. I give you a ''Thumb's Up'' for showing it.
Returning to Normandy, one of the aircraft dropping parachutists, in the third echelon tail number 348608 with the yellow cockpit Id letters "CD" is "Betsy's Biscuit Bomber", a C-47B built in 1943. It was flown from the Estrella Warbirds Museum collection here at the old WWII Estrella Army Air Corp base outside of Paso Robles, California, U.S.A. This aircraft's last military U.S. missions was flying the Berlin Airlift, it was sold to Israel and was later purchased back from the Israeli Air Force and refurbished, there is a sign in Hebrew painted on the lavatory-door that roughly reads, "The only replacement for a Dakota, is another Dakota". The plane was a military transport it's whole life and never converted for civilian us. It still has all of it's original equipment to include the 1943 over-sized desert type sand shield air-scoops atop the engines nacelles and the gear it used for towing combat gliders at Arnhem. It has participated in many jumps and I hope they have a smooth and safe flight there and back. God bless all Veterans this day, their day as we remember them.
Thanks for all these details about this legendary aircraft. We will never forget what did the Veterans.
Excellent video - thanks
Thanks for showing us what the BBC didnt!
I think it wasn't airplayed in France
@@sieur2408 It should have been seen by all. A very emotive event, captured brilliantly in your video.😀👍