One of Haddam’s residents recently participated in the remembrance ceremonies for D-Day in France. Following a flyover of C-47’s in Middletown and East Hartford, http://www.haddam-killingworthnow.com/2019/05/15/fly-over-at-pw-5-15-19/
a group of C-47 planes flew to Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, Scotland and England. From there, they flew over Normandy on the French coast and dropped parachutists on June 4th, 5th and 7th. The WWII Demonstration Team (https://wwiiadt.org ) created a video of the event: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=460659967844172 to be viewed and shared.
Frank Durinick is a paratrooper in the US Army and is in a unit of 300 jumpers. 200 paratroopers made the jump to mark the important anniversary. His father, Frank Durinick Sr. was in the Pacific Infantry in WWII. An estimated 1,000,000 people witnessed these events. The planes used had also been used in WWII.
Frank says “We are traveling to France on June1 from there we will be going to Duxford, UK on the 3rd, making a parachute jump in Duxford on the 4th then flying over the English Channel in WWII C-47 aircraft and jumping into Normandy on the evening of the 5th. The Aircraft that we are jumping from actually dropped paratroopers on D-Day. We will be participating in remembrance ceremonies on the 6th, jumping into Carentan, Normandy on the 7th and making another jump near Saint-Lo on the 9th.”
Here are some photos supplied by Frank and the Demo Team …
Thanks to all the veterans that gave their all to save our freedoms.
