Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Startup of the left engine of the Valiant Air Command
Warbird Museum in Florida's C-47 Tico Belle.

She has a more than impressive WWII combat record:
Normandy - June 1944 – Operation Neptune (D-Day)
Southern France – July 1944 - Operation Dragoon
Holland – September 1944 - Operation Market-Garden
Belgium - December 1944 - Relief of Bastogne (The Battle of the Bulge)
Germany – March 1945 - Operation Varsity