Douglas C 47

The legendary Douglas DC-3 airliner was a technological breakthrough that changed the course of both civilian and military aviation. In the 1930s, passenger air travel was expensive, uncomfortable, and frequently unreliable. That began to change with the appearance of the handsome, thoroughly modern DC-3, the twenty-one-passenger twin-engine propeller-driven creation of Donald Douglas and his young California company.

Petrolhead Guy Martin wants to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day by parachuting out of an iconic Dakota aircraft over Northern France. But before he can recreate the dangerous mission that spearheaded the Invasion of Normandy, Guy will help rebuild one of the last remaining Douglas C-47 Dakotas, undergo brutal paratrooper training, make the first air-drop of a paratrooper's motorcycle since the war, and hear the moving stories of the veterans who served during the most complicated military operation in history.

A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.