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  1. The 🇬🇧 #Defense Secretary, #GrantShapps, has ordered an urgent review after it emerged there is a shortage of planes for a mass parachute drop to mark the 80th anniversary of #DDay

    Hundreds of #paratroopers were expected to jump into #Normandy on the eve of #DDay to honour the actions of their predecessors in #WorldWarTwo, but plans have been scaled back due to a shortage of aircraft

    The #MailOnSunday reported just one plane was left for the event

    theguardian.com/world/article/ #Military #News

  2. RT from U.S. Army Europe and Africa (@USArmyEURAF)

    The #DefenderEurope exercise #SwiftResponse provides a great opportunity to #train with our @NATO #Allies in Spain, and our sister component from @HQUSAFEAFAF, as seen here in their C-17 Globemaster III transporting #US and Spanish #Paratroopers.

    @US_EUCOM @EjercitoTierra

    Original tweet : twitter.com/USArmyEURAF/status

  3. C-47A, 92nd Troop Carrier Squadron, 493rd Troop Carrier Wing, 9th Air Force took off from #Upottery Airfield, #Devon on D-Day to the #Cotentin Peninsula, #Normandy. They carried Easy Company (to gain fame as the ‘Band of Brothers’), Lt. Dick Winters & other #paratroopers of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division on their very first combat jump. This #aircraft is now owned by #KermitWeeks. #WW2 #EasyCompany #BandofBrothers #France #C47 #Airborne #history #DDay #photography

  4. C-47A, 92nd Troop Carrier Squadron, 493rd Troop Carrier Wing, 9th Air Force took off from #Upottery Airfield, #Devon on D-Day to the #Cotentin Peninsula, #Normandy. They carried Easy Company (to gain fame as the ‘Band of Brothers’), Lt. Dick Winters & other #paratroopers of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division on their very first combat jump. This #aircraft is now owned by #KermitWeeks. #WW2 #EasyCompany #BandofBrothers #France #C47 #Airborne #history #DDay #photography

  5. C-47A, 92nd Troop Carrier Squadron, 493rd Troop Carrier Wing, 9th Air Force took off from #Upottery Airfield, #Devon on D-Day to the #Cotentin Peninsula, #Normandy. They carried Easy Company (to gain fame as the ‘Band of Brothers’), Lt. Dick Winters & other #paratroopers of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division on their very first combat jump. This #aircraft is now owned by #KermitWeeks. #WW2 #EasyCompany #BandofBrothers #France #C47 #Airborne #history #DDay #photography

  6. C-47A, 92nd Troop Carrier Squadron, 493rd Troop Carrier Wing, 9th Air Force took off from #Upottery Airfield, #Devon on D-Day to the #Cotentin Peninsula, #Normandy. They carried Easy Company (to gain fame as the ‘Band of Brothers’), Lt. Dick Winters & other #paratroopers of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division on their very first combat jump. This #aircraft is now owned by #KermitWeeks. #WW2 #EasyCompany #BandofBrothers #France #C47 #Airborne #history #DDay #photography