Family and Friends email number 3 – from May 6, 2008

The C-47 we were in was a WWII plane that had dropped paratroopers in Southern France during Operation Dragoon. Gordon’s wife, Tracy, gave me a pamphlet with the complete provenance of the plane. That plane had been everywhere. It was used to drop paratroopers in training for D-Day and it made re-supply drops in Burma and North Africa. ................
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