In the predawn hours of June 6, 1944, a C-47 Skytrain designated Whiskey 7 ran a gauntlet of flak and fog to insert paratroopers of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division behind enemy lines over Normandy, France. Seventy years later, church bells instead of flak greeted Whiskey 7 as it roared over the village of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France. For several minutes on June 5,2014, D-Day C-47 pilots Julian Rice and William Prindible, both from Whiskey 7's wartime 37th Troop Carrier Squadron, took the yoke over the countryside they helped liberate. "Who thought, 70 years later I'd still be in an airplane that I'd flown so long ago," Rice, who flew Whiskey 7 later in the war, told "NBC News."
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