Hamilton, the last surviving Pathfinder pilot from the Normandy Invasion, was very active with the D-Day Squadron, the DC-3 ...

On June 6, 1944, 22-year-old Victor Nelson was the eighth paratrooper to jump in the blackness ... and a total of 822 C-47’s (Skytrain) aircraft. An invasion point of 50 miles of the Normandy ...

The Douglas C-47 Skytrain took paratroopers from Membury, in Berkshire, to the Normandy battlefields in 1944 The team restoring a veteran D-Day plane have met with members of the same squadron ...