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Decorated in their black and white “invasion stripes,” these C-47s like hundreds of others at bases across southern England, await their cargo on the afternoon of June 5, 1944. (National Archives)
Decorated in their black and white “invasion stripes,” these C-47s like hundreds of others at bases across southern England, await their cargo on the afternoon of June 5, 1944. (National Archives)