That’s All, Brother to Tour Western U.S.
The Douglas C-47A Skytrain Dubbed That’s All, Brother will make autumn 2023 tour stops in Colorado, Utah, California, New Mexico, and Texas. At each stop, visitors will be afforded opportunity to view the aircraft, tour its interior, and purchase rides aboard such.
Crews expert in That’s All, Brother’s history, restoration, and operation will answer questions about the aircraft and recount the exploits of the fighting men by which it was flown and maintained.
That’s All, Brother will make stops in:
- Centennial, Colorado: Wings Over The Rockies: Centennial Airport (APA): 01-04 September.
- Broomfield, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Metro Airport (BJC): 05-07 September.
- St George, Utah: Western Sky Aviation Warbird Museum, St. George Regional Airport (SGU): 08-10 September.
- Chino, California: Planes of Fame Museum: Ontario (CA) International Airport (ONT): 15-17 September.
- Camarillo, California: CAF Southern California Wing: Camarillo Airport (CMA): 29 September - 01 October.
- Santa Teresa, New Mexico: War Eagles Air Museum: Doña Ana County International Jetport (DNA): 06-09 October.
- Houston, Texas: CAF Wings Over Houston Airshow: Ellington Airport (EFD): 14-15 October.
- Dallas, Texas: Aviation Discovery Fest: Dallas Executive Airport (RBD): 10-12 November.
Parties interested in learning more about That’s All, Brother or purchasing flights aboard her are invited to visit: www.thatsallbrother.org.
That’s All, Brother is famed for having transported the crew by which the main force of U.S. Army paratroopers were led into France during June 1944’s Operation Overlord—of which the storied and terrible D-Day landings were part.
In the dark of night and under heavy German anti-aircraft fire, That’s All, Brother carried paratroopers of the U.S. Army’s famed 101st Airborne Division into the countryside beyond Normandy’s Atlantic coast, dropping the warfighters behind enemy lines to support Allied amphibious forces attacking from the north.
Throughout the remainder of WWII, That’s All, Brother served in Operation Dragoon, the August 1944 Allied invasion of Provence (Southern France); Operation Market Garden, the September 1944 Allied push into the Netherlands; the Relief of Bastogne, the 1944 Allied effort to thwart Germany’s attempted seizure of the harbor at Antwerp; and Operation Varsity, the March 1945 Allied campaign to cross the northern Rhine River and enter Germany.
After the war, That’s All, Brother was sold as surplus and came perilously close to passing from memory. Fortuitously, in 2015, the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) plucked the aircraft from boneyard ignominy and restored it to its WWII fighting form. In June 2019, That’s All, Brother returned to Europe for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day. In June 2024, That’s All, Brother will return yet again to England and France to take part in the 80th anniversary commemorations of the D-Day invasion.
The Douglas C-47 Skytrain (USAAF designation) or Dakota (RAF designation) is a military transport aircraft derived from Douglas’s DC-3 civilian airliner. Upwards of 10,174 C-47s were built between January 1942 and the summer of 1945, with variants serving as troop and VIP transports, cargo aircraft, aerial assault platforms, and glider-towplanes.
The C-47 was utilized extensively during the Second World War and is broadly looked upon by military historians as a key component of the Allies’ victories in the conflict’s European and Pacific Theaters.
Remarkably, the C-47 remained in U.S. military service until 30 June 1975, when the last operational specimen—USAF C-47D 43-49507—was retired and flown to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Ohio’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The aircraft remains on display in the museum’s World War II Gallery—albeit in the livery of a WWII-era C-47A-80-DL 43-15213 of the 91st Troop Carrier Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group. At the time it was withdrawn from service, 43-49507 had accumulated a total of 20,831 flight-hours.
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