I had the honor of flying on That’s All Brother back in 2021 at the Texas wing commemorative Air Force event. A truly awesome experience to fly in such an amazing aircraft.

Man... I got really sentimental with these documentaries. It's as if 'That's All... Brother; was herself fighting for her own survival. Never permitting that destiny would send her to an irretrievable situation through irreversible modifications or a much worse fate. Not counting what she fought for her very own life during WW2, she continued her survival fight way after her wartime service. Don't ever tell me that an aircraft, of ANY sort, doesn't have a soul of its own. WELL DONE CAF!!! And an ENORMOUS THANK YOU to all involved in the long process to preserve a fantastic piece of history. THANK YOU!

I saw That's All Brother at Dover AFB in May of 2019. My reenacting unit was able to suit up and sit in the plane. It was quite an experience for all of us. Thank you for preserving that piece of history.

I was honored to see That’s All Brother in France in 2019. Don’t let what happened to your B17 Happen to That’s All Brother.

"There is no glory in combat. Believe me. There is no glory." Almost every war veteran I have talked to have convey this message. They think it's nice to have their service is recognised, but no medals can neither erase the horrible memories of war nor bring back the friends they lost in combat.

David Hamilton Pathfinder pilot just turned 101, on 7-27-23! 👍

@yuglesstube

11 ай бұрын

You were in Pathfinders?

Brings a tear to the eye but so glad that such a important piece of history was brought back to life in part by the gentleman that kept pushing her to the back burner with a gut feeling this plane was important ❤

@normanalvarez2592

9 ай бұрын

Me too brother that was awesome😢

Incredible history and beautifully done video on it! Jim lived to be 101 and passed in 2022. Glad he got to fly once more! RIP

My dad was at Utah Beach. He only talked about it until shortly before he passed. He died 6 June 2007.

@aaronmcconnell7358

10 ай бұрын

My grandfather served in the 5th infantry d-day +2 I belive, he to told me very little about that time except some funny stories. one day when I complained about walking home 5 miles from school, he said try walking from France to Germany. Then another was he was shoveling snow I said go inside its to cold I'll do that "ah hell it ain't as cold as bastonge" as a young kid I didn't get the reference. May your father rest in peace, it's almost as if he wanted to join his brothers on the day they left .

@babayaga8045

9 ай бұрын

🙏❤️🇺🇸thank you

@babayaga8045

9 ай бұрын

My grandfather served in Infantry in US 5th army in Italy Campaign. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

@HeROsiNhEaVeN

9 ай бұрын

🙏🏻🌸🇺🇸🙏🏻

@KING_YATEE

9 ай бұрын

My grandfather fought in ww2 he was in the 105 infantry. 🇺🇲 God bless America

RIP Mr. Martin. May this history never be forgotten. Thanks to all involved in this video.

@mattfarahsmillionmilelexus

9 ай бұрын

Age 101, quite a guy from one end to the other.

What an awesome series. Thank you so much for this.

I live 20 minutes from Oxford Airport CT... it was great when all the DC'S flew in for D Day 75... i saw the "Nine O Nine" multiple times... it flew over my home 4 or 5 times... You NEVER forget that SOUND! Ty for all your success!

I can’t think of a restoration that has more significance to the power of freedom and the conviction to honor and defeating tyranny than this. I am SO happy you did this and I get to see of it. I’m touched deep and far beyond the power of words. It made tears well up in me eyes to see that old Soldier revisit that flight and it was so nice to think that in this plane ride he did not have to jump out and do again what was required of him the first time he took a ride in one of these craft. God Bless Those Men. Me Dad was one of the fighters of that war - he went in at Anzio - I served too for 13 years in the US Army, and me young son is an Airborne Ranger. It is real in me family to Soldier. It is not a thing I take lightly.

@derekkessler7752

9 ай бұрын

Thank You kindly for your Fams service 🙏 God bless

This set of videos that tell the story of "That's All Brother" are really good, but I was a bit disappointed you left out the D-Day re-enactment!

We are so lucky to have birds like her and Memphis Belle that actually were there in England completing their missions

I’ve seen a C-47 that participated in D-Day on static display in California. Even just sitting there, looking old and tired, paint faded in the sun, I thought about the hands of the paratroopers who touched the door frame on the way out, how many of them survived the jump, and wondered if any of them survived the war. I’ve seen a B-17, a B-25, and a two-seat P-51 operated by the CAF, and I’m very glad they keep these old birds flying.

Thank you to all of our men and women in service and who have served. God Bless America

I have my grandfathers CIB(combat infantryman badge from WW2). It is the most prized possession i have. It was given to me after he passed away. I have met some really amazing people but non any finer than WW2 vets and vets in general. Their knowledge and wisdom is so treasured to me . When i think of my freedom and all i have in this country and i see that star spangled banner i think of them. I think of my grandfather.🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏❤️

The courage of Jim climbing into that plane and the feelings of what took place to him and his squad after they jumped form that plane must have been overpowering, what a true manly man. Salute Sir! Hats off the the Team and those who keep the memory and what sacrifices took place to give us the freedoms we have here in the Western Style countries. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya AT1 USN/USNR-TAR Retired

This a hard to believe but true story. My mother (17 years old) and her sister and parents fled Russia as the Americans, to the west, and the Germans, to the east approached her town. She told me many times that on one day there were so many Allied airplanes overhead that it got dark.

Thank you to all the veterans of the united states armed forces past, and present ,your sacrifices have given me 42 years of freedom, in the greast country on earth . that freedom is something i cherish and respect ,so again i say thank you.

I jumped out of this plane on a skydive a couple years ago. Incredible experience.

The ol' boy saying "We were not heroes. We volunteered to do it, we trained to do it, we were paid to do it" Sir, the volunteer part is what makes you a hero. Paid or not, heroes all of em.

what a great documentary

i was in the navy air corps and we had a ww2 c47 on base. it was still confugured the same as it was during that war. a number of us including myself were lucky enough to fly in it from our base in beeville to houston to watch an astros baseball game at the now gone astrodome. all of the tickets and the flight were on the navy. i loved the experience.

I can't listen to or see these WWII vets faces without crying. It just comes over me.

Thank you for your service, young man

What a great video, I will have to find the full restoration video, well done to all those who served & also to those who brought these old warbirds back to life.

David Hamilton looks pretty spry in 2019, more like a Vietnam veteran.

If only America's foreign policy were as virtuous today as it was in 1944.

I am so proud of you guys thank you so much 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Nice documentary

I have Ron Cole print of this AC with a Original piece of Aircraft Skin. #47 of 50.

Notice the Photo at 23:40 where the Group captain is point to the Calais Pocket? All secrecy was undertaken and all messages about the campaign said they were invading Calais not Normandy. I can only assume once the Photographer left the staged photo they closed blinds and showed the real story . Really interesting to view this scene would have been across the UK the days beforehand.

That is amazing and wonderful that you saved her.

i can't even phatom what the old timer felt climbing on the plane and flying...i bet his mind went stright to the 1st day he flew

7:55 Jake "McNasty" McNiece. He's a legend in his own right.

World war2 aircraft are the most beautiful aircraft in the sky. My uncle was a member of the CAF, to me it will always be the Confederate Airforce. I have many hours flying in WWII aircraft with my uncle. He flew in the Pacific, from the USS Lexington.

I love that you've saved this historic and iconic aircraft. You did it right. It's beautiful. Great job, fella's, thanks ! My dad was a left waist gunner on a B-17 named, Lady Godiva, that was shot down on it's very first mission over St Nazaires, France in 1943. He was captured and spent nearly two years at Austria's Stalag 17 . He was liberated at the end of the war in 1945.

Hello from Australia. There is nothing like good old American engineering. BTW there were many Americans in Australia during WW2. Without the US we would have been stuffed.

@tootired76

11 ай бұрын

Very nice to have an ally such as Australia!!

Have they worked out who was inside and jumped from her 1944 flight into their relative Drop Zone ?

Great video

What an awesome story.

Thank you!!!

Was there no final video of the trip and final Normandy recreation flight and drop?

My grandfather and his unit made the airstrip where they took off from. Plus, two others before his unit went to France. He was an engineer.

Really enjoying these videos, thanks! As a matter of interest, are you planning on replacing the carburetor air intakes to the C 47 style rather than the DC 3 styles she has now?

This is an interesting article

Most Excellent ¿

W7 was another C47 that was on the d-day flight. she is cared for and kept in flying condition by a muesum in geneseo NY, which is about 20 miles from my house. i flew in it once

I restore vintage cars and motorcycles and I understand trying to keep them or put them exactly they way they were. I get it but find it odd that they have modern avionics in it.

37:53 the look on his face Clearly States im ready to jump and do it again

NEVER FORGET!

Can you imagine the elation, a French Citizens seeing all the paratroopers coming down in the night sky on June 6? I know my heart would have been soaring if I was there.

Any word on what was the source of that oil leak? In any case, I thought they had spare engines for just such an emergency.

is that the fall out 4 theme song lol

Salute the CAF

Hmmmm.....maybe the problem was that FRAM oil filter?

Airborne, all the way. Thank you.

All this expensive restoration work and they put a Fram oil filter on the engine...

digital cockpit? required by faa?

@russhoover6768

11 ай бұрын

There are certain instruments required to operate in controlled airspace that was not even around back then.

WWll the war to end all wars..they said...We who have lived our lives without the challenges that these men faced who have benefitted greatly from what they did these many years later...show them our graditude for what they did. In tribute to them we remember and hold them in the highest of regard may we never forget... FREEDOM ISNT FREE...2023 American Greatness is a far cry from what these men fought and died for. I hope and pray that Americans come to understand that if we become weak and passive we lose. Our strength and integrity is in our sense of what is proper and right. America the greatest nation on earth has its roots in its founding its Constitution and We The People.Let us never forget.. The TRUTH does not change even when its ignored.

The past tense of lead is led, not lead.

@kylestewart6282

11 ай бұрын

Just a typo.

Good God it was in a boneyard... I guess better than running daily flights in south Americas rain forests, or one of Alaskas rural routes delivering fuel oil, where at any time it could get reclaimed by nature. LOL. these old birds with a bit of shadetree maintenance can fly forever.

why a 1960s helmet?

my speech are constitution : the main reason of hitler loose the war was ... the germany brave leader in the normandy region was killed by so professional sniper ... genius phycisist from the brave iraq 🇮🇶 🇮🇶 🇮🇶

When I see the guys putting on the Mohican war paint, I think if that happened today someone would run up and say..."Yuo can't do that, that's cultural appropriation!"....what has America become.

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Putting in GPS and EFIS type instrument's doesn't amount original equipment or configuration

I have greatly enjoyed this series but disliked the constant references by commentators along the lines of how D-Day saved 'our freedom', etc. The USA was never directly thretened by German invasion. As a British European, it saved European democracy, yes. The USA has sadly gone a long way far from it since then. I honour all of those who fought for democracy in WW2, whether Brits, Canadians, French, etc., but it was an Allied fight.

0:10 This is untrue. The Soviets were turning the tide on the Germans in the East, and what D-Day helped in is breaking the stalemate there. But the tide had been turned by this point.

Nice documentary. The fake sepia tone filter is irritating,as well as showing British paras more than US paras.

@dolfandringa

11 ай бұрын

Does it really matter what passport they held?

@ih302

11 ай бұрын

Try not to be so small minded please.

During WWII there was nearly 20,000 DC-3 made...Still today there is 300 of them flying and they will fly another 100 years because it is the best airplane ever made! And the best time I ever had as was fly the DC-3! Over 3,000 hours, it is big, it is cheap and easy to operate and it never break! You lose an engine? Just trim a bit and away you got...One time it happen, the fog set all over the east of the USA! No problem...Zero fucking zero, you still go to your usual destination in the thick fog, landing the two wheels right between the white line!

God bless that generation