Lead D-Day C-47 "That's All Brother" Found and Being Restored
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 5:27 pm
Sometimes we get lucky and a plane that has been missing for decades is found and actually able to be restored to fly.
Below is a link to the New York Times article of the discovery and acquisition of the C-47 that led the Allied air assault on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Named, "That's All Brother," an allusion to the end of Hitler and the Nazi regime, the plane had been sold to a private owner and changed hands several times before being tracked down in Wisconsin owned by a company that disassembles old planes and uses the parts to restore others. The company did not know the history of the plane. Fortunately, the original tail number was still on it and a sharp-eyed aircraft historian spotted it.
The article gives the details of the hunt for the plane, which now is hoped to fly in the D-Day Celebration in Europe in 2019. We get a rare happy ending on this one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/us/d-day-plane-c-47.html?module=WatchingPortal®ion=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=3&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F01%2F29%2Fus%2Fd-day-plane-c-47.html&eventName=Watching-article-click
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Below is a link to the New York Times article of the discovery and acquisition of the C-47 that led the Allied air assault on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Named, "That's All Brother," an allusion to the end of Hitler and the Nazi regime, the plane had been sold to a private owner and changed hands several times before being tracked down in Wisconsin owned by a company that disassembles old planes and uses the parts to restore others. The company did not know the history of the plane. Fortunately, the original tail number was still on it and a sharp-eyed aircraft historian spotted it.
The article gives the details of the hunt for the plane, which now is hoped to fly in the D-Day Celebration in Europe in 2019. We get a rare happy ending on this one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/us/d-day-plane-c-47.html?module=WatchingPortal®ion=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=3&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F01%2F29%2Fus%2Fd-day-plane-c-47.html&eventName=Watching-article-click
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