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Ztex · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:35 am

7/11/12 - We're back on Warbird Radio.com tonight! LIVE @ 8:00pm Eastern

Lyle Jansma is back on the show tonight with tales of D-Day! What was it like to fly over the beach head in a combat veteran C-47 full of paratroopers?

Tune in and learn more!

(Plus an update on Lyle's Cockpit 360 app )

Forgotten Field · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:26 pm

I hope the rest of the jumpers had better haircuts and aircraft exits than that one...

Mike · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 8:54 am **Posts:** 3331

Forgotten Field wrote:

I hope the rest of the jumpers had better haircuts and aircraft exits than that one...

How do you think she should have had her hair cut? :wink:

Dave Homewood · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2012 5:44 am

Just out of interest, did the real D Day paratroopers have a reserve chute like this person is wearing? It seems a little low for a reserve to be very effective, but then the photo may be deceptive.

The paratroopers had mohawk haircuts, didn't they? They did in the comics and on model boxes anyway.

Ztex · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:28 am

This GUY has a hair cut that might be a bit better than the Woman's...

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Not many of the parartroopers had Mohawks. From what I understand the "Filthy Thirteen" from one stick in the 101st had the cut and some "war paint" there seems to have been a few here and there in the 101st with the Mohawk but very rare in the 82nd...and not much at all after D-Day.

And the reserve chute seems appropriate..

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