Where Qantas airliners go to spend their retirement years...
Britain's most advanced jets touch down on home soil. Four F-35B Lightnings arrived into RAF Marham, their new home in Norfolk after a trans-Atlantic flight from the United States.
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Four Lightning jets of 617 Squadron are currently refuelling off the coast of Canada on their way to the UK and their new home of RAF Marham.
"Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months.... The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you." - Army Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied supreme commander in Europe, Order of the Day, June 6, 1944
On June 6, 1944, nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed along a heavily fortified, 50-mile stretch of French coastline in the historic operation known as D-Day. More than 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded on the beaches of Normandy, but by day's end, the Allies had gained a foothold to begin liberating Europe.