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Old May 13, 2019, 1:09 pm
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WHBM
 
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Big DC-3 get-together in UK and France

Not a quiz item but now is the time to let all interested know about the 75th anniversary of D-Day, being commemorated here in the UK and in France on 5 June.

Here's the dates and times

https://www.daksovernormandy.com/program/

Here's the aircraft (must be a quiz question or two in there somewhere)

https://www.daksovernormandy.com/aircraft/

DC-3s, with paratroopers or towing gliders, were the key aircraft of those times. They hope to get more than 30 DC-3 together, in loose formation, to make the trip across the English Channel. They start from Duxford museum, near Cambridge, and head across to Caen in Normandy, France. They are actually doing the trip on the afternoon of Wednesday 5 June. Lots of events in the days beforehand at Duxford, and after at Caen. the timetable also shows where they will pass over on the way. Shame officialdom has not let them come over central London.

Up to 12 DC-3s are coming over from the USA in a group though I can't find much detail of that.

Anyone who wants to meet up at Duxford on 5 June give me a PM.
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