... time West-bound. Its new designated home was Trinidad, where the eight-man crew arrived on March 2, 1944. Over the warm waters of the South Atlantic and the Caribbean, VPB-92 often had to struggle wit ...
... region to drop parachutists over Northern France just as in the morning hours of 6 June 1944, and numerous L-Birds gathered at St. André de l’Eure, close to Evreux.
Where? Normandy, France When? 05-06/06/2019 ...
... as the C-47 Dakota “That’s All, Brother!”. It is the plane that carried the first of the paratroopers from the 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions during D-Day on June 6, 1944. The plane is now in the c ...
... Czechoslovakian pilots in service of the RAF during WW II. He crashed and died on 28 November 1944 near Zwolle after been hit by German AA fire. Smik’s aircraft has been re-created by the Spitfire’s owner, ...
... had our well earned cold beer after checking the aircraft. The history of the aircraft: S/N 13204 has originally been delivered to the USAAF in December 1944 and has been used during the last days of ...
