Historic D-Day C-47 Takes Flight Again

The Commemorative Air Force has succeeded once again in returning a historically significant airplane to the skies. And this one is extra special. That’s All Brother happens to be the Douglas C-47A Skytrain that led some 800 paratrooper-carrying C-47s over Normandy, France, during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, when about 13,000 aircraft and 5,000 ships brought in 160,000 Allied troops to the French coastline in an attempt to defeat Adolph Hitler’s Nazi troops — a day that served as the beginning of the end of World War II.

Before finding its way to the CAF, That’s All Brother served in many capacities after the war and was about to be converted to a turboprop by Basler Turbo Conversions in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. But CAF found the historic C-47 just in time and committed to taking it on as a restoration project. Basler completed much of the restoration.

(Evangle Luo of TTFLY shared with you)