C-130 Formation Flight Over Normandy

C-130 Formation Flight Over NormandyVideo by Staff Sgt. Brandon Sabin 86th Airlift Wing

The 37th Airlift Squadron conducts formation training over Normandy, France as part of the 73rd anniversary of the D-Day landings during WWII.

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Activated in June 1942 under First Air Force, being formed at Patterson Field, Ohio. Trained at various stationd in the southeast and Texas with C-47 Skytrain transports. Deployed to Egypt in November 1942 as part of President Roosevelt’s decision to aid the Royal Air Force Western Desert Air Force, assigned to the newly established Ninth Air Force, headquartered in Cairo.