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D-Day Doll revisits Normandy after 75 years
by retired Lt. Col. Carrier Group launched from Royal Air Force Alder- The D-Day Doll, tail number 830, flew three mis- SPOTLIGHT
JERRY BRYANT maston Airfield, each one towing a Waco glider. Their sions on June 6 and 7, 1944. The Doll stayed in
mission carried reinforcements for troops from the the fight after D-Day and flew in Operation Market
Old Pueblo Daedalian Flight 101st Airborne Division who had jumped in earlier, Garden in Holland, the resupply of Bastogne, then
near Utah Beach. Among these aircraft was the D-Day pushed on across the Rhine flying a variety of
TUCSON, Ariz. — It happened on June 6, 1944 Doll, tail number 830. The Doll flew three missions on support missions.
— the most massive invasion in history. June 6 and 7. 12,000-mile journey across the U.S., Atlantic and nine
countries and returned to Normandy. The first stop
Securing an Allied foothold on the European conti- The Doll stayed in the fight after D-Day, flying in in this journey was Tucson, home of the Old Pueblo
nent commenced with aerial and naval bombardment. Operation Market Garden in Holland, the re-supply Daedalian Flight 12. The Flight used the occasion of
Shortly after midnight, an airborne assault to insert of Bastogne, then pushed on across the Rhine flying the Tucson stopover to present its donation, as well
24,000 U.S., British and Canadian troops took place to a variety of support missions and evacuating wounded as a donation from Daedalian National Headquarters
help pave the way for the beach landings that would to England. to support this historic mission.
take place later that morning.
The D-Day Doll was one of 159 C-53D Skytrooper
At 1:19 a.m., 52 aircraft assigned to the 434th Troop aircraft produced. Built at the Douglas factory in
Santa Monica, California, she was delivered to the
Old Pueblo Army Air Force on July 7, 1943, and arrived at RAF
Daedalian Flight Aldermaston in March 1944.
The Old Pueblo Daedalian Flight meets at Today the D-Day Doll still flies, thanks to the Inland
11:30 a.m. the third Thursday of the month Empire Wing of the Commemorative Air Force located
September through May at Club Ironwood. in Riverside, California. In 1957, Lloyd Nolen, and a
For more information on becoming a Daeda- small group of former military pilots, purchased a
lian, contact retired Lt. Col. Jerry Bryant at P-51 Mustang. They were on a mission to preserve
jgbddb@cox.net. military aviation history. The CAF now has almost
13,000 members and a fleet of more than 165 aircraft
representing more than 60 airframes.
On May 8, 2019, the D-Day Doll began a seven-week,
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