Thanks to @thurstonhow and @tjc193 I realized this was a DC-3, which is pretty much the same plane as the C-47. This one was heading to a museum at @flymanchester.
https://www.wmur.com/article/aviation-museum-of-nh-marks-end-of-educational-program-with-dc-3-visit/33613052
Putting a link with some history in the end of this thread since these planes are badass. https://twitter.com/robert_mills/status/1294739740344844290
https://www.wmur.com/article/aviation-museum-of-nh-marks-end-of-educational-program-with-dc-3-visit/33613052
Putting a link with some history in the end of this thread since these planes are badass. https://twitter.com/robert_mills/status/1294739740344844290
If you don’t wanna click, just know these are the planes that flew into Normandy dropping Americans the night before D-Day.
Teenagers jumped from these planes, in the dark, into Nazi Germany, to put themselves between Nazi tank divisions and their fellow soldiers.
Teenagers jumped from these planes, in the dark, into Nazi Germany, to put themselves between Nazi tank divisions and their fellow soldiers.
Without these planes delivering people half my age, with no route of escape, into a land that tortured and starved its prisoners, so that they fight tanks and secure bridges there, the men on the beaches that day likely would have been slaughtered shortly after landing.
And the crazy thing is that nothing in those previous tweets is an exaggeration. Here are links to support.
I’m having a bit of a nerd moment here as I realize this really is what buzzed my house earlier. https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/d-day-and-douglas-c-47
I’m having a bit of a nerd moment here as I realize this really is what buzzed my house earlier. https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/d-day-and-douglas-c-47