By Starla Pointer • Staff Writer • 

Stopping By: Stories of flight

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Moe

"It’s not just any C-47, Laney said. The museum’s C-47 flew during Operation Market Garden, helping the Allies create a route by which to invade Germany."

A disastrous operation in itself, by British General Montgomery. Made possible by Eisenhower cutting General Patton's gasoline, the bigger disaster - for at the time, Patton was chasing the Germans, in headlong retreat, back into Germany, with the war plausibly ending by Thanksgiving 1944, saving so many lives (including avoiding the Battle of the Bulge), and with the Russians still in Russia.

"The museum’s C-47 also dropped paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division into France on D-Day."

An unnecessary, or at least much more costly operation than necessary - as Europe had already been successfully invaded, at great cost, by the largely unexploited allied invasion of Italy, Rome liberated 4 June 1944, two days before D-Day.

Similar comments apply to the Pacific war.

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