Aircraft
First D-Day Squadron DC-3 Lands in UK
The DC-3s will participate in the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
D-Day Squadron DC-3s participated in a formation flight down the Hudson River before departing for the UK. (Photo: Adrienne Hall/Sound Off Films)
D-Day Squadron DC-3s participated in a formation flight down the Hudson River before departing for the UK. (Photo: Adrienne Hall/Sound Off Films)

The first of 14 DC-3/C-47 Dakotas and variants comprising the D-Day Squadron and scheduled to complete the transatlantic crossing in preparation for the 75th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasion at Normandy, France has landed at the Imperial War Museum’s Duxford Airfield in England. Clipper Tabitha May, a DC-3 in Pan American Airways Clipper colors, departed Manassas, Virginia on May 14 and arrived in England on May 21, after several overnight stops in Canada, Greenland, and Iceland.


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