C-47A Skytrain, Placid Lassie, shortly after lifting off the runway, bound for the Fourth of July Salute to America Fly Over of Washington DC. Placid Lassie is a true D-Day veteran having pulled a glider, loaded with troops of the 101st Airborne Division. The glider landed approximately one mile inland of Utah Beach nearly two and a half hours before the first water-borne troops hit the beaches at Utah.
Photographed during the 2020 Fourth of July Fly Over of Washington DC.
Tunison Foundation
U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF)
Douglas C-47A Skytrain
N74589 / 224064 "Placid Lassie"
74th Troop Carrier Squadron (74 TCS), 434th Troop Carrier Group (434 TCG), 9th Air Force, Aldermaston, England
PIC, Eric Zipkin
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