Want to see the Dakota armada heading for France, places to be
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IWM Duxford 5th June
I went to IWM on the Wednesday so here are my photos form that day and was only at PAVCON Europe day before I’m Amsterdam. Very moving and special day for a lot of the worlds C-47s to congregate over here. Though wishful thinking some owners had Spooky Puff The Magic Dragon ...The Beechcraft 99 carried members of the parachute regiment also dropping . Well done to those who flew halfway across the world with the likes of the west coast USA to come here..
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Excellent 
The general belief is that the departure on the day was 2.5 hours delayed from plan because President Macron had switched round his commitments without discussion. Presumably this was just him acting out the part of his predecessor, De Gaulle, on the day, who made himself a complete nuisance both during the organisation and during the event, to the extent that Churchill had to arrange the French resistance signals to be covertly intercepted and translated, to see what he was doing, while Roosevelt (and thus Eisenhower) eventually refused to have anything further to do with him.
