From over East Hartford, Hartford’s skyline is visible under “That’s All, Brother,” one of five C-47s that flew in formation over Connecticut on May 15. The six planes departed from Oxford, flew over Pratt and Whitney, landed at Bradley Field and returned after a reception at the New England Air Museum. These war planes, along with six others from the United States will fly to Europe and join 15 more to drop an estimated 1,000 D-Day paratroopers in a reenactment over Normandy. (Johnathon Henninger / Special to the Courant)
Hartford Courant: From Connecticut to Normandy, vintage planes help mark 75th anniversary of D-Day
Seventy-five years after dropping airborne troops into Nazi-occupied France, vintage warplanes bearing the black and white invasion stripes of Operation Overlord are set to take off from Connecticut on Sunday for a return flight to Europe.
Placid Lassie, D-Day Doll, That’s All, Brother and other planes of the D-Day Squadron are to depart from Waterbury-Oxford Airport and leapfrog across the Atlantic to take part in Daks Over Normandy. The international gathering of volunteer pilots, crews and historic planes is to culminate on June 5 with a jump by about 250 paratroopers into the same drop zones used in the June 6, 1944 invasion.
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WNU Editor: That parachute drop is going to be something to watch.
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