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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