The plane that led D-Day is flying back to Normandy

None is on board on this flight, but a recreation of a good-luck charm, a Scottish terrier carried by one of the D-Day paratroopers on the plane in 1944, is making the trip. The plane is being piloted by Doug Rozendaal, of Clear Lake, Iowa, who has flown warbirds for the Commemorative Air Force chapter at South St. Paul’s Fleming Field, has flown C-47s/DC-3s for more than 30 years, and trained the previous owner of “That’s All Brother” on how to fly the plane. After the week-long trip to Europe, the pilots of all the planes will meet up with a dozen European counterparts, and together cross the English Channel to Normandy for the ceremony commemorating the June 6, 1944, military landing.

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