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RE: Salute to the Airborne troops that risked it all to hold important areas behind the enemies line during the D-Day Invasion!
Yeah you don't get to see squat smithlabs because you'll be buried in your own little peon world of steemit and weku.
Hey, how many of those aircraft are there anyway, you'd think there would only be a few left in flying condition so how are they going to pull this off?
Also, I thought the day of the coastal invasion it was so overcast that the landing troops had no air cover and the defensive big gun batteries of the Germans were totally untouched and able to operate like normal.
Have to take care of Debbie...she can not travel.
BUT there are still a lot of of these birds flying, they were a near perfect design! There is still ONE DC-3 flying passengers in Canada. Strangely the single biggest threat to this aircraft, is the high octane fuel she uses. It is getting harder to find, as the use drops.
But these ships are so tough, they will fly another century.
The coastal guns faced Naval guns, and did NOT do very well! Some of our Fletcher class destroyers came in quite close, at great risk to provide fire support. Some were hit, but they really dished it out!
The weather broke down days after the troops landed, but on D=Day, were OWNED the skies! The P-47 Thunderbolt was tasked with freezing all reinforcements, and she was Very good at it!
The only real damage we received was from some Terrible storms in the channel.
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