Today, June 5, a very large group of men and women followed in the footsteps of the Greatest Generation! About 250 men and women boarded aircraft in the United Kingdom to, exactly like 75 years before, fly across the English Channel and to jump into the historic drop zones of Normandy. They wore WWII style Allied uniforms and jumped with military round parachutes. They flew aboard a mix of 34 DC3 and C47 aircraft with spitfire flying escort. There were Royal Navy vessels offshore at Normandy as the aircraft flew over. This will be the last year the DAKS reenactment will be carried out.
As June 6 dawns, let us remember those brave men that were already on the shores of Europe as pathfinder paratroopers and the resistance fighters who were all engaged in combat and the men who would be wading ashore amidst the furry of war we cannot possibly image.
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