Editor’s Note: In May 2019 I traveled to Oxford, Connecticut for media day hosted by the D-Day Squadron as they prepared to depart to fly 14 WWII C-47 warbirds to Normandy, France for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. David Hamilton, one of 20 pilots who flew the Pathfinder mission early on June 6, 1944, was…
Pathfinder Pilot Recalls D-Day
Lt. Col. David Hamilton (RET) stands by a WWII C-47 in Oxford, Connecticut on May 16, 2019 before leaving for Normandy for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. (Photo: RET)