D-Day Invasion Lead Aircraft: Douglas C-47 'That's All Brother' Relic Display

D-Day Invasion Lead Aircraft: Douglas C-47 'That's All Brother' Relic Display

$200.00
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Own, display, and preserve an authentic aluminum skin section from one of the most famous and important participants in the D-Day invasion of France. Ron Cole has combined his original artwork of this aircraft, C-47 s/n 42-92847 'That's All Brother' (originally commissioned by the Commemorative Air Force in support of the restoration of this aircraft), with a section of skin left over from the rebuild. Complete with the history of this aircraft, signed & numbered, in an 11x17-inch ready-to-hang brushed black frame. . Douglas C-47 'That's All Brother' led the formation of 800 other C-47s from which approximately 13,000 U.S. paratroopers jumped on D-Day, June 6, 1944 - the beginning of the liberation of France in the last two years of World War II. . The C-47's name, painted on its nose, was chosen by Air Force Lt. Col. John M. Donalson, commander of the 87th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, who flew the plane during the operation, as a "message to Adolf Hitler" that Nazi German

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