D-Day 75th Anniversary by Tom Beech

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D-Day 75th Anniversary

13,100 American paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions made night parachute drops early on D-Day, June 6, followed by 3,937 glider troops flown in by day

Invasion stripes were alternating black and white bands painted on the fuselages and wings of Allied aircraft during World War II
to reduce the chance that they would be attacked by friendly forces during and after the Normandy Landings

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Dan Greenberg		19-Jun-2019 18:27
I always knew what invasion stripes were but not the reason for them, so thanks for that bit of info Tom. Great picture of this C47. The processing treatment for it is just perfect for the subject and era.

Carter Creek		06-Jun-2019 16:50
I was only a little over 4 years on D Day. So I don't really have any personal memories of the day. The members of the various service that served in WW II are definitely "The Greatest Generation". I don't think the millennial generation has no idea of what the fewer and fewer survivors of WW II did to make their present way of life possible.

Neil Marcus		06-Jun-2019 14:37
I remember reading about D-Day in the New York Daily News. I was busy picking up newspapers for the war effort at that time and my mother was saving rendered bacon fat to give to the butcher. They used glycerin from the fat. I never heard how they used it.

Tom Briggs		06-Jun-2019 12:48
A DAY TO REMEMBER