… a stick of re-enactors prepares to board D-Day Doll, their transport for a demo jump at IWM Duxford. Daks over Duxford
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… band of re-enactors, boarding their Skytrooper transport before an – eventually cancelled – commemorative jump at Duxford Aerodrome. Daks over Duxford
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… That’s All Brother, D-Day Doll and Betsy’s Biscuit Bomber taxi to the main runway at Duxford before a mass parachute drop demo. Daks over Duxford
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… That’s All Brother, a Douglas Skytrain, is about to take off from Duxford Aerodrome with airborne re-enactors on board.
Incredibly, this same aircraft managed to take part in all 4 major airborne operations in the European theatre, dropping paratroopers over Normandy on the first night of Overlord, over Provence during operation Dragoon, over Holland during Market-Garden, and over the Rhine near Wesel, Germany for operation Varsity. She is still flying today, in her 1944 D-Day livery. Daks over Duxford
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… This Lisunov Li-2 was built in the Soviet Union in 1949 under license from Douglas. It’s the last survivor of its kind.
After various tribulations, it was lovingly restored and appears in the livery of Malév, the Hungarian airline for which it flew in the glamorous Sixties.
When not travelling to air shows all over Europe, it can be seen, and even flown, at its home port of Budaörs Aerodrome, Hungary.
Daks over Duxford
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