Karl Drage posted: "In addition to the extensive list of events planned to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day in the UK, Lee Flying Assocation (www.eghf.co.uk) and partners have created a unique Daedalus D-Day 70th Airmen and Airborne Commemoration, as Karl Drage exa"
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2014-05-28
2014-05-27
GAR D-Day 70 – Pt.10 – Dakotas over Normandy Preview, 04-08/06/14
Huw Hopkins posted: "From 5 to 8 June the skies over the Cotentin Peninsular will once again be filled with the sight and sound of Douglas DC-3 Dakotas as the Round Canopy Parachute Team (RCPT) presents Dakotas over Normandy, an event that will bring together up to 10 of the "
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2014-05-21
GAR D-Day 70 – Pt.11 – Airshow Preview: IWM Duxford D-Day Anniversary Air Show, 24-25/05/14
Elliott Marsh posted: "On Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 May 2014, IWM Duxford commemorates the 70th anniversary of Operation OVERLORD, the Allied invasion of occupied Europe, with its D-Day Anniversary Air Show. Elliott Marsh previews the event for GAR. At the time of the D-Day "
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2014-05-14
GAR D-Day 70 – Pt.9 – Preview of Commemorations
Admin posted: "Throughout the spring and summer of 2014, the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy will be commemorated by a series of events in the UK and Europe. Several UK-based historic aircraft will also be receiving special anniversary"
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2014-05-02
GAR D-Day 70 – Pt.8 – Operation OVERLORD: The Airfields Campaign
Elliott Marsh posted: "In addition to the attrition raids against the Reich, the neutralisation of Luftwaffe airfields in western Europe had also been marked as a priority from the very beginning of the planning of Operation OVERLORD. Elliott Marsh looks at the next phase of t"
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2014-04-28
Pen and Sword : New titles about D-Day
Hitler's Spyplane Over Normandy 1944 (pre-order)
Imprint: Pen & Sword Aviation
Found in: World War Two Books
World War Two Aviation
Hardback
216 pages
ISBN: 9781473823396
Published: 31 May 2014
The World's First Jet
by Philippe BauduinImprint: Pen & Sword Aviation
Found in: World War Two Books
World War Two Aviation
Hardback
216 pages
ISBN: 9781473823396
Published: 31 May 2014
by Martin Bowman
Imprint: Pen & Sword Aviation
Found in: Aviation History Books
Normandy/D-Day Books
Series: Air War D-Day
Hardback
256 pages
ISBN: 9781781591161
Published: 20 February 2013
This is the second volume of a comprehensive five part work on D-Day
that includes a multitude of personal military accounts from both Allied
and German Aviation personnel ‘who were there’. Overlord began with an
assault by more than 23,000 airborne troops, 15,500 of them American,
behind enemy lines to soften up the German troops and to secure key
objectives. 6,600 paratroopers of the US 101st ‘Screaming Eagles’
Division in 633 C-47s and 83 gliders and 6,396 paratroopers of the US
82nd ‘All American’ Division in 1,101 C-47s and 427 gliders were dropped
over the neck of the Cotentin peninsula.
By the end of the operation, the list of casualties was extensive. But 101st Airborne Division linked up with the US 4th Infantry Division beach landings at Pouppeville, the most southerly exit off ‘Utah’ Beach and the 82nd secured the area north of Ste-Mère-Église after fierce fighting and drove the enemy north, considerably delaying the German 243rd Infantry Division from contacting the Allied beach assault force. This important episode within the wider history of D-Day is enlivened in classic Bowman fashion, featuring both extensive historical notes as well as deeply personal accounts of endurance and individual gallantry.
By the end of the operation, the list of casualties was extensive. But 101st Airborne Division linked up with the US 4th Infantry Division beach landings at Pouppeville, the most southerly exit off ‘Utah’ Beach and the 82nd secured the area north of Ste-Mère-Église after fierce fighting and drove the enemy north, considerably delaying the German 243rd Infantry Division from contacting the Allied beach assault force. This important episode within the wider history of D-Day is enlivened in classic Bowman fashion, featuring both extensive historical notes as well as deeply personal accounts of endurance and individual gallantry.
by Martin Bowman
Imprint: Pen & Sword Aviation
Found in: Aviation History Books
Normandy/D-Day Books
Series: Air War D-Day
Hardback
180 pages
ISBN: 9781781591789
Published: 10 July 2013
This fourth volume of a comprehensive five part work on D-Day covers
every aspect of aerial operations on and behind the beaches at 'Omaha'
and 'Utah' beaches on 6 June 1944. It might be imagined that the passing
years would blunt the outlines of the experience but the D-Day veterans
do not forget. Their accounts convey the chaos, terror and hysteria as
the first salvos of German fire clanged off the landing craft, in
language that is all the more powerful for its terseness and simplicity.
The landings at 'Omaha' which were vital to connect the US troops at 'Utah' Beach with the British and Canadian beaches to the east were an unmitigated disaster with an estimated 3,000 killed, wounded and missing. The highest number of casualties of all the beaches, they were the greatest American losses in one battle since the Battle of Antietam Creek in the American Civil War in September 1862.
The situation on the beach was chaotic as troops were pinned down by enemy fire and had to take cover behind mined beach defenses. As things progressed, it was an accumulation of individual acts of self-sacrifice and gallantry which opened up an exit and a seaborne bombardment by the task force saw tenuous footholds finally gained by early afternoon. In stark contrast to Omaha, an almost textbook landing was made at Utah; the air bombardment was effective and a strong current actually landed the 4th Infantry Division 2,000 yards south of their intended target where the beach was less heavily defended.
This account analyses each aspect of the aerial operation, noting how events on the ground and in the sea impacted upon pilots endeavors in the skies. Evocative images supplement the text effectively to create a real sense of what it was like for the pilots of D-Day, the individuals who made such a contribution to the Allied war effort in the Second World War.
The landings at 'Omaha' which were vital to connect the US troops at 'Utah' Beach with the British and Canadian beaches to the east were an unmitigated disaster with an estimated 3,000 killed, wounded and missing. The highest number of casualties of all the beaches, they were the greatest American losses in one battle since the Battle of Antietam Creek in the American Civil War in September 1862.
The situation on the beach was chaotic as troops were pinned down by enemy fire and had to take cover behind mined beach defenses. As things progressed, it was an accumulation of individual acts of self-sacrifice and gallantry which opened up an exit and a seaborne bombardment by the task force saw tenuous footholds finally gained by early afternoon. In stark contrast to Omaha, an almost textbook landing was made at Utah; the air bombardment was effective and a strong current actually landed the 4th Infantry Division 2,000 yards south of their intended target where the beach was less heavily defended.
This account analyses each aspect of the aerial operation, noting how events on the ground and in the sea impacted upon pilots endeavors in the skies. Evocative images supplement the text effectively to create a real sense of what it was like for the pilots of D-Day, the individuals who made such a contribution to the Allied war effort in the Second World War.
For more than a century, the aviation industry has experienced continual change and upheaval. Many individuals have contributed to this field of developmental aviation over the course of time. One of these key players is Heinrich Lübbe, a man who marked the evolution of aerial transportation through his cultivation of technological excellence. From flying lessons given to him by his friend Roland Garros, to the creation of the Arado business, Lübbe made a significant impact and left a lasting legacy.
2014-04-24
GAR : D-Day 70 – Pt.7 – Operation OVERLORD: VIII Fighter Command’s Hun Hunters
Elliott Marsh posted: "Diving out of the sun from 10,000 feet at 400+ mph and screaming across German airfields at ground level, strafing aircraft and hangars as flak and small arms fire burst all around... This was the exhilarating, dangerous life of the fighter pilot tasked "
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2014-04-01
Aerobuzz : La Ferté-Alais commémore le D-Day.
- Le Dak sera cette année la star du show !
- Comme chaque année, des dizaines de milliers de personnes sont attendues le week end de Pentecôte sur l’aérodrome de Cerny.
- © Ph. Chetail / Aérobuzz.fr
Avec la commémoration du Débarquement en Normandie comme thème principal de ce meeting, l’un des plus spectaculaires tableaux du show mettra en scène un vol en formation de plus d’une dizaine de warbirds, dont 4 DC3/C47 Dakota. Un largage de parachutistes depuis ces appareils évoquera les opérations aéroportées du 6 juin 1944.
http://www.aerobuzz.fr/spip.php?breve3181
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Libellés :
Airshow,
AJBS,
D-Day,
Douglas C-47,
La Ferté-Alais
[vintage-and-warbirds] Restored WWII plane to return to Normandy for D-Day anniversary
Forwarded message - From: SIRIUS
Restored WWII plane to return to Normandy for D-Day anniversary
March 24, 2014
Associated Press
The next time the American military transport plane known as Whiskey 7 drops
its paratroopers over Normandy, France, it will be for a commemoration
instead of an invasion.
Seventy years after taking part in D-Day, the plane now housed at the
National Warplane Museum in western New York is being prepared to recreate
its role in the mission, when it dropped troops behind enemy lines under
German fire.
At the invitation of the French government, the restored Douglas C-47 will
fly in for 70th anniversary festivities and again release paratroopers over
the original jump zone at Sainte-Mere-Eglise.
"There are very few of these planes still flying and this plane was very
significant on D-Day," said Erin Vitale, chairwoman of the Return to
Normandy Project. "It dropped people that were some of the first into
Sainte-Mere-Eglise and liberated that town."
Museum officials say the twin-prop Whiskey 7, so named because of its W-7
squadron marking, is one of several C-47s scheduled to be part of the D-Day
anniversary, with jumpers made up of active and retired military personnel.
But it is believed to be the only one flying from the United States.
The plane will fly to France by way of Labrador, Greenland, Iceland,
Scotland, and Germany, each leg 5-½ to 7 hours. Vitale compared it to trying
to drive a 70-year-old car across the country without a breakdown. "It's
going to be a huge challenge."
Among the 21 men it carried in 1944 was 20-year-old Leslie Palmer Cruise
Jr., who also will make the return trip to France, his fifth, and be
reunited with the craft -- once it's on the ground. He is flying
commercially from his Horsham, Pa., home outside Philadelphia.
"With me, it's almost, sometimes, like yesterday," Cruise, now 89, said by
phone, recalling his first combat mission. "It really never leaves you."
Although the C-47 looks much the same today as it did on June 6, 1944, it
looked very different when it arrived at the museum as a donation eight
years ago. It had been converted to a corporate passenger plane.
"We had to take an executive interior out," said the museum's president, W.
Austin Wadsworth. "It had a dry bar, lounge seats, a table with a nice map
of the Bahamas in there. It was beautiful."
The museum's restoration of the historic plane to its original condition has
been a roughly $180,000 project so far. Most of the money went toward two
rebuilt engines and the rest to parts, equipment, and service. The museum is
trying to raise a total of $250,000 for the restoration and return to
Normandy.
One upgrade it did allow was the installation of two GPS systems to keep the
aircraft on course.
"The avionics in the airplane are modern. We're not going to go with what
they had in 1943," Wadsworth said. "They would have had probably a radio
beacon receiver and a lot of dead reckoning."
There is still no autopilot, said Wadsworth's daughter, Naomi, who will be
among five pilots -- one including her brother, Craig -- taking turns at the
controls on the way to Europe. That's fine with her, she said.
"It's history. It's real flying," she said. "With a lot of the computerized,
mechanized things that you see in the airliners today, the airplane
basically flies itself....This is not a situation where you can be asleep at
the wheel. You really have to pay attention."
Said her father, also a pilot: "You don't just grab something and push it.
There's a kind of feel to everything you do in these old birds. It doesn't
have a soul obviously, but you don't just tell it what to do. You ask it."
Cruise still remembers being squashed between other paratroopers seated on
pan seats as the plane left England's Cottesmore Airdrome. He was weighed
down with probably 100 pounds of gear, including an M-1 rifle that was
carried in three pieces, 30-caliber rifle ammo, a first-aid pack, grenade,
K-rations, and his New Testament in his left pocket, over his heart.
"We could hear the louder roar as each plane following the leader
accelerated down the runway and lifted into the air," he wrote in an account
of the mission. "Our turn came and the quivering craft gathered momentum
along the path right behind the plane in front."
The airplane's engines were so loud he had to shout even to talk with the
paratrooper next to him, he said, and the scenery through its square windows
looked like shadows in the dark. Over the English Channel, a colonel pointed
downward.
"In the partial darkness below, we could make out silhouetted shapes of
ships and there must have been thousands of them all sizes and kinds,"
Cruise wrote. "If we had any doubts before about the certainty of the
invasion, they were dispelled now."
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Restored WWII plane to return to Normandy for D-Day anniversary
March 24, 2014
Associated Press
The next time the American military transport plane known as Whiskey 7 drops
its paratroopers over Normandy, France, it will be for a commemoration
instead of an invasion.
Seventy years after taking part in D-Day, the plane now housed at the
National Warplane Museum in western New York is being prepared to recreate
its role in the mission, when it dropped troops behind enemy lines under
German fire.
At the invitation of the French government, the restored Douglas C-47 will
fly in for 70th anniversary festivities and again release paratroopers over
the original jump zone at Sainte-Mere-Eglise.
"There are very few of these planes still flying and this plane was very
significant on D-Day," said Erin Vitale, chairwoman of the Return to
Normandy Project. "It dropped people that were some of the first into
Sainte-Mere-Eglise and liberated that town."
Museum officials say the twin-prop Whiskey 7, so named because of its W-7
squadron marking, is one of several C-47s scheduled to be part of the D-Day
anniversary, with jumpers made up of active and retired military personnel.
But it is believed to be the only one flying from the United States.
The plane will fly to France by way of Labrador, Greenland, Iceland,
Scotland, and Germany, each leg 5-½ to 7 hours. Vitale compared it to trying
to drive a 70-year-old car across the country without a breakdown. "It's
going to be a huge challenge."
Among the 21 men it carried in 1944 was 20-year-old Leslie Palmer Cruise
Jr., who also will make the return trip to France, his fifth, and be
reunited with the craft -- once it's on the ground. He is flying
commercially from his Horsham, Pa., home outside Philadelphia.
"With me, it's almost, sometimes, like yesterday," Cruise, now 89, said by
phone, recalling his first combat mission. "It really never leaves you."
Although the C-47 looks much the same today as it did on June 6, 1944, it
looked very different when it arrived at the museum as a donation eight
years ago. It had been converted to a corporate passenger plane.
"We had to take an executive interior out," said the museum's president, W.
Austin Wadsworth. "It had a dry bar, lounge seats, a table with a nice map
of the Bahamas in there. It was beautiful."
The museum's restoration of the historic plane to its original condition has
been a roughly $180,000 project so far. Most of the money went toward two
rebuilt engines and the rest to parts, equipment, and service. The museum is
trying to raise a total of $250,000 for the restoration and return to
Normandy.
One upgrade it did allow was the installation of two GPS systems to keep the
aircraft on course.
"The avionics in the airplane are modern. We're not going to go with what
they had in 1943," Wadsworth said. "They would have had probably a radio
beacon receiver and a lot of dead reckoning."
There is still no autopilot, said Wadsworth's daughter, Naomi, who will be
among five pilots -- one including her brother, Craig -- taking turns at the
controls on the way to Europe. That's fine with her, she said.
"It's history. It's real flying," she said. "With a lot of the computerized,
mechanized things that you see in the airliners today, the airplane
basically flies itself....This is not a situation where you can be asleep at
the wheel. You really have to pay attention."
Said her father, also a pilot: "You don't just grab something and push it.
There's a kind of feel to everything you do in these old birds. It doesn't
have a soul obviously, but you don't just tell it what to do. You ask it."
Cruise still remembers being squashed between other paratroopers seated on
pan seats as the plane left England's Cottesmore Airdrome. He was weighed
down with probably 100 pounds of gear, including an M-1 rifle that was
carried in three pieces, 30-caliber rifle ammo, a first-aid pack, grenade,
K-rations, and his New Testament in his left pocket, over his heart.
"We could hear the louder roar as each plane following the leader
accelerated down the runway and lifted into the air," he wrote in an account
of the mission. "Our turn came and the quivering craft gathered momentum
along the path right behind the plane in front."
The airplane's engines were so loud he had to shout even to talk with the
paratrooper next to him, he said, and the scenery through its square windows
looked like shadows in the dark. Over the English Channel, a colonel pointed
downward.
"In the partial darkness below, we could make out silhouetted shapes of
ships and there must have been thousands of them all sizes and kinds,"
Cruise wrote. "If we had any doubts before about the certainty of the
invasion, they were dispelled now."
------------------------------------
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Vintage and Warbirds of the world http://www.vintageandwarbirds.com
Hosted by the Clyde North Aeronautical Preservation Group.Yahoo Groups Links
Libellés :
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Douglas C-47,
Event,
Warbirds
2011-09-14
Fwd: ARF205 Operation Overlord Vol 1 (June - Sept. 1944)
Hello,
Found at the IPMS exhibition in Mol last Sunday.
Nice little book about aircraft of the Royal Air Force & Luftwaffe on D-Day.
Contains nice profiles of North American B-25 & Germain aircraft based in Belgium in June 1944.
The book is availlable from Aviation Bookshop at http://www.aviation-bookshop.com
Found at the IPMS exhibition in Mol last Sunday.
Nice little book about aircraft of the Royal Air Force & Luftwaffe on D-Day.
Contains nice profiles of North American B-25 & Germain aircraft based in Belgium in June 1944.
The book is availlable from Aviation Bookshop at http://www.aviation-bookshop.com
ARF205 Operation Overlord Vol 1 (June - Sept. 1944)
Soft Bound 72 Pages compiled by Neil Robison and Illustrated by Jon Freeman. Pictoral Coverage of the color schemes and markings applied to the RAF's 2 TAF and ADGB aircraft during 'Operation Overlord' from June to September 1944 including RAF Commonwealth and Occupied countries and squadron units. Large representative selection of the operational aircraft types and sub-variants that took part & much much more!
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Yves Duwelz
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