Splash and Dash Searey Seaplane Delights                            Apr 27 2:10 Guest User - Request Membership Layout | Log In | Help | Videos | Site | Emails  Search:   Front Page Calendar Photos Add Photos News Add News File Cabinet Add File Cabinet History Add History * Searey Info * Add * Searey Info * Polls Add Polls Classifieds Add Classifieds Utilities Create a New Site  News View All News | Add News | Emoticons | Mark Unread Search News:      Category: History, Honoring Vets Previous Item - I was thinking of offering them some hangar space This will go to the previous thread in this topic.       Favorite option: If you want this item to be marked as a favorite, click on the black heart.   In Remembrance of 75 Years Ago         Next Item - Partnership in Orlando area This will go to the next thread in this topic.    Paul Sanchez - Jun 06,2019   Viewers  | Reply     Today marks the anniversary of D-Day Invasion of Normandy. I’m here in jolly ol’ England and have enjoyed a couple of days at Duxford for the “Daks over Normandy”. My father flew C-47’s so aviation’s in the blood. 21 C-47’s & 2 P-51’s departed yesterday with “paratroopers” for the reenactment at Normandy. Not sure if I could write a “Dan Nicken’s” style narrative right now, but thought you all would appreciate at least a photo summary. Apologies for the quality of the pics, but I’ll add some later from my “real camera” later. Cheers! “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few” As told by Winston Churchill in 1940       Attachments:   Daks over Normandy 26C97032-A20A-4183-B415-AFD3B7747DE6 44222E21-032B-422B-8BF7-EBDD00BC2431         Attachments:   6F6D64EC-E4A7-4293-AB43-0C910D9A535B 592CC580-39E0-452B-9A7D-2B6A625A59B9 8E1D2F59-769E-4431-AEF2-B0908BD1184E          Don Maxwell - Jun 06,2019   Viewers  | Reply     Thanks, Paul. I'm sure those guys appreciate our remembering their experience. C-47s were still used in the 50s, when I was in the army, mainly for jobs like supplying listening posts on little islands west of North Korea. I got to shove pallets out the cargo door a few times during low-level passes below 100 feet MSL. (Maybe that's why I like Searey flying so much.) But the Airborne guys liked C-119s better for jumping by that time. The angle of your P-47 photo is interesting. Imagine how you'd land one!          Mark MacKinnon - Jun 06,2019   Viewers  | Reply     Many of those C-47's came through the Presque Isle Maine airport (KPQI). They were given a discount on fuel, and a warm Aroostook County greeting by over a thousand folks who came out to see them. I tried to drive up there that day to see them but had vehicle problems and couldn't make it. Some of them are supposed to be coming back through on their return. If you've been following the D-Day Squadron FB page, you've seen the "Private Presquey" reports. This is a toy bear mascot that was given to them by the Presque Isle Air Museum.       Attachments:   Private Presquey          Paul Sanchez - Jun 06,2019   Viewers  | Reply     Mark, I talked with some of those crews and they remarked how well they were treated. And yes, they will be stopping back through there’s again. Hope you can get out to meet them.          Mark MacKinnon - Jun 12,2019   Viewers  | Reply     A must watch video. This is what it was all about.       Attachments:   D-Day Anniversary          Don Maxwell - Jun 13,2019   Viewers  | Reply     Hm. It looks like a can't watch link, Mark. It says, "URL signature expired."          Mark MacKinnon - Jun 13,2019   Viewers  | Reply     It appears the direct link to the video has some sort of time limit. Here's the link to the D-Day Squadron's FB page with the video.       Attachments:   D-Day Squadron video          Mark MacKinnon - Jun 13,2019   Viewers  | Reply     I now see that you need to log in to Facebook to see it. Here's the direct link again, which may expire again.       Attachments:   video          Mark MacKinnon - Jun 14,2019   Viewers  | Reply     Yep, it expired again. Strange thay they would do that.          Don Maxwell - Jun 13,2019   Viewers  | Reply     Good film.          Paul Sanchez - Jun 18,2019   Viewers  | Reply     Not sure if this is the one your were trying to post:       Attachments:   D-Day Video          Mark MacKinnon - Jun 18,2019   Viewers  | Reply     That's it, thanks.          Don Maxwell - Jun 18,2019   Viewers  | Reply     I think that's the one, Paul. They did a nice job with it. (It amuses me, though, to see that most of the re-enactors are 30 or 40 years older than the guys they're portraying were in 1944, when the average American GI age was about 20. (But it doesn't amuse me much to remember listening to the attached broadcast in my family's living room a couple of weeks after I turned five. I remember clearly that the mood in the room seemed different afterwards, and I asked, "What does that mean?" One of my parents--can't be sure which--said, "I think it means we're at war." Well, I didn't know what that meant, either. But of course it lead eventually to D-Day and the other memorable WW II days. And, it seems, to the current flirtation with fascism. I don't think F.D.R. (it's his voice in the video) would be pleased by that part.)       Attachments:   CBS-NewBulletin-PearlHarbor-1.mp3          Steve Kessinger - Jun 19,2019   Viewers  | Reply     Don't want to be a Donnie Downer, but here's another perspective of WW2. I'll never forget the first time I came home from the museum and I said Giuliana, We had a great day, someone donated this neat Jap gun camera! An hour later when Taifun Nakashima had blown over, she brought out the quilts from when her family had been interred in Arkansas, and showed me some of her dad's stuff from when he served in the 442nd Infantry Regiment. What was cool was a couple years ago a guy was doing some work at the house and asked why we had a 442nd hat on the shelf. When we told him Giuliana's dad was in the Regiment he was in awe, he had served in the reconstituted Regiment in Iraq and the original guys were legendary. :respect: to all who served.       Attachments:   Why I love a country that once betrayed me          Carr, Frank  - Jun 28,2019   Viewers  | Reply     I also thank you Steve for that. Part of American History that's not often talked about. I wonder if it is mentioned in the schools today?          Don Maxwell - Jun 19,2019   Viewers  | Reply     Thank you, Steve. That's a great Ted talk--found myself applauding at the end, and weeping, too.

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