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I read a bit about the Dakota and its role on D-Day and was inspired to create this rough watercolor sketch. I hope you like it. : )

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Operation Tonga was the codename given to the airborne operation undertaken by the British 6th Airborne Division between 5 June and 7 June 1944 as a part of Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings during World War II.

The paratroopers and glider-borne airborne troops of the division, commanded by Major-General Richard Nelson Gale, landed on the eastern flank of the invasion area, near to the city of Caen, tasked with a number of objectives. The division was to capture two strategically important bridges over the Caen Canal and Orne River which were to be used by Allied ground forces to advance once the seaborne landings had taken place, destroy several other bridges to deny their use to the Germans and secure several important villages.

Crucial to the success of the mission was the airborne assault and this was spearheaded by the DC-3/C-47 Dakota plane. About 2,000 C-47s (received under Lend-Lease) in British and Commonwealth service took the name «Dakota», possibly inspired by the acronym «DACoTA» for Douglas Aircraft Company Transport Aircraft.

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Text-Source: Wikipedia
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