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Douglas C-47 with c/n 19345, was delivered to the United States Army Air Force on December 28, 1943 with serial 42-100882. She joined operations with 87th Troop Carrier Squadron. Based at Greenham Common. Being equipped as glider pick up, her crew named her "Drag 'em Oot" (slang for Drag them out).

She participated in the air assault during D-Day when at 00:46 on June 6, 1944 she dropped 18 paratroopers of the US 82nd Airborne Division, just behind the Normandy beach heads, near St. Mere Église. She returned safe to the UK and after a second mission the same day, she started to resupply the troops in France until she was transferred to the Royal Air Force as Dakota C3 with serial TS422 in September 1944.

Carentan drop DDay Festival 2017

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Purple Heart Lane : Cole and his unit of 400 men – 3rd Battalion, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment- were part of D-Day mission Albany. They were called from reserve into action to attack four bridges on highway N13 to Carentan. On June 10 and 11, 1944, Cole and his battalion fought an intense battle on this causeway for nearly two days under intense German machine gun, mortar, and artillery fire. In the morning of D+5, with the Germans resisting Cole's attempts to take the bridges, Cole ordered heavy artillery on the German strongholds.

"Le C-47 « Drag-’em-oot » 42-100882, qui, lui, est anglais. C’est un véritable ancien participant au débarquement, il a largué des parachutistes du 2e Bataillon du 502ème Régiment d’infanterie de la 101ème Airborne le jour J il se trouvait être l’aéronef n ° 2 du 7 « stick ». Les 6 premiers étant ceux des « Pathfinder », envoyés plus tôt dans la nuit pour guider les avions suivants et leurs largages. Il les lâche au dessus de Carentan, et repart pour aller chercher des planeurs pour l’opération Elmira : il fait partie des 14 Waco ou CG-4A Hadrian (chez les anglais) plus les 36 Airspeed Horsa qui vont débouler sur Sainte-Mère l’Eglise. Il n’a pas fait que cette mission : dès le 2 septembre 1944, il est devenu anglais, inscrit dans la RAF à la base de Greenham Common et a participé sous l’indicatif Dakota III (N° TS422) aux deux grandes opérations parachutage, Market Garden et Varsity (la plus grande opération aéroportée de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ayant pour objectif de prendre pied sur le Rhin). Pendant ces opérations on lui a largement tiré dessus, et il en a gardé les stigmates, son fuselage portant des pièces de métal à la place des trous d’éclats de DCA. Il partait alors de Down Ampney faisant partie du 435 (RCAF) Squadron en août 1945. En devenant anglais il a hérité d’un tâche particulière, celle de ramener un par un les planeurs posés dans la campagne normande en Angleterre, les alliés craignant trop de les voir attaquer par la Lutwaffe dont ils ignoraient l’état avant de déliquescence, faute de carburant.

Pour cela, on va l’équiper d’une longue crosse arrière et d’un treuil à bord pour qu’il puisse prendre à la volée, sans avoir à se poser, les planeurs Waco, via un câble tendu horizontalement entre deux poteaux, faisant gagner du temps lors de l’opération. "

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Author Falcon® Photography from France, France
Camera location49° 19′ 05.02″ N, 1° 15′ 45.25″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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