30/07/2026
One of those moments you simply can’t plan.
On 23 May, during the Memorial Day ceremony at Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, an Airbus A400M Atlas flew over the graves of the American servicemen commemorated here.
A remarkable sight in itself: one of Europe’s modern military transport aircraft passing over a cemetery that tells the story of another generation of servicemen.
We had been told to expect the flypast from the opposite direction, so virtually every camera was pointing the wrong way when the aircraft suddenly appeared behind us.
Mine wasn’t 😉
Pure luck… and probably one of my favourite shots from a commemoration in a long time.📸
Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Belgium, 23 May 2026.