Forwarded message - From: Kevin Rutten
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Elliott Marsh posted: "On Wednesday, 4 June 2014, eight Douglas DC-3 Dakotas from eight countries departed from their staging base at HMS Daedalus, Hampshire, and headed South towards Normandy to begin a weekend of commemorative parachute jumps and flypasts to mark the 70th ann"
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Elliott Marsh posted: "As Operation OVERLORD drew near, the Allied air forces turned their attention to a brief but intense bombing campaign against the Normandy coastal gun batteries and radar sites which could pose a real and major threat to the seaborne forces on D-Day. Ell"
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Elliott Marsh posted: "The Allies recognised a simple, undeniable fact when planning Operation OVERLORD: Rommel must not be able to muster inland reinforcements to crush the invasion forces at the Normandy beachhead. The very success of D-Day depended on it. So began perhaps "
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Gareth Stringer posted: "With the Royal Air Force's official 'at home' days now numbering just two, Gareth Stringer has a look at what RAF Cosford has to offer this year. Incredible, isn't it? With the demise of RAF Leuchars, RAF Cosford and RAF Waddington are now the last two re"
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Greg Marsh posted: "The American Air Day is one of the best events on the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre's calendar and returned in 2014, following a year's hiatus. Naturally, a US theme prevailed with a selection of historic American aircraft displaying during the af"
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