Original D-Day C47 aircraft Argonia, Ste Mere Eglise
The flight engineer and part-time co-pilot of the Argonia was Technical Sergeant John J. Ginter who collected the aircraft at Fort Wayne, Indiana. He left Fort Wayne with it on 13 February1944, and some three months later ended up over Ste Mere Eglise on D-Day having been through Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Brazil, Dakar, Marrakesh and then England, where final preparations were made for the invasion
Picture No
12547902
Media ID
45756595
Size
3488px x 2616px
(1.6MB)
Credit
© Holt's Battlefield Collection / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Tonie and Valmai Holt - Holts' Battlefield Collection
Date
2008
