Memorial Day Celebrations Video

Across the nation our fallen heroes were remembered on Memorial Day, foreign countries also celebrated our troops sacrifice. So vast and ingenious were these heartfelt tributes only a few can be mentioned.

In Washington DC, soldiers of the 3d United States Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) participated in the Memorial Day tradition of "Flags In" where soldiers place an American flag at every gravestone throughout Arlington National Cemetery, in commemoration of our Nations fallen heroes. This is a special video using time-lapse photography, by Sgt. Paul T. Sanchez, honoring all services and service members on Memorial Day 2013.


Palm Springs Air Museum pays tribute to veterans with carnation airdrop at 15th annual event. One of the B-25 Bombers used to recreate the movie, Pearl Harbor air raid, flew over the Palm Springs Air Museum at 1 p.m. May 27 to release 3,000 red and white carnations for the 15th consecutive year. The white carnations honor veterans from World War I, World War II, Korea and Viet Nam. The red carnations pay tribute to veterans of the Persian Gulf, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

Bud Anderson's return to the UK was part of the first ever display by the specially-formed Eagle Squadron of four vintage warplanes. The display will commemorate the role of the US Army's Eighth Air Force at a spring air show at the Imperial War Museum's Duxford aerodrome. As the U.S. prepares to remember its war dead on Memorial Day, the 91-year-old Anderson who flew missions in the Second World War will be taking to the skies again over England.

Eagle Squadrons were formed by American volunteers who signed up to fight alongside Royal Air Force's pilots battling Nazi tyranny, before the U.S. entered the war after the  Pearl Harbor attack. Representing the aircraft they flew during the war in Europe will be a rare P-51C Mustang that has been shipped to England from the U.S. to take part in the show, alongside a Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire and Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.

The aircraft will be piloted by Dan Friedkin, Ed Shipley, Steve Hinton and Paul Bonhomme. The Americans are best known as the Bremont Horsemen Flight Team and have performed spectacular P-51 Mustang displays at Duxford before.
Read more at The Daily Mail.

The forty-sixth annual Tuskegee fly-in attracted visitors, history buffs, and aviation lovers. Moton Air Field is where hundreds of African airmen trained to fly into battle during World War II.  Although the fly-in is an annual event at the field, you can visit the Tuskegee Airmen Museum in Tuskegee throughout the entire year. -Staff Report