Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da yaƙin ya fara, John Donalson, wanda ya saba tashi tare da Alabama-based 106th Observation Squadron, wanda aka sanya shi zuwa filin wasan Pacific a lokacin yakin, an tura shi zuwa Turai. A al'ada, ya tashi Douglas C-47 Skytrain wanda ya kira "Belle na Birmingham", don girmama babban birnin jiharsa. Amma ga Operation Overlord, mamayewar Normandy ta 1944 wanda ya bude gaban yamma
, ya zama dole a yanke ramuka a cikin jirgin jirgin don ƙarin kayan aiki. Donalson, a lokacin da yake umurni da rundunar Sojoji ta 438 na Rundunar Sojoji ta 87, wani ɓangare na IX Sojoji na Sojoji, ya ƙi, don haka aka ba shi wani C-47 don ya jagoranci tsarin jiragen sama wanda ya sauke 'yan bindiga a kan iyakar Faransa.