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2. Douglas C-47 Skytrain - Wikipedia

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   The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (RAF designation) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner. It was used extensively by the Allies during World War II . During the war the C-47 was used for troop transport , cargo , paratrooper , for towing gliders and military cargo parachute drops.

3. That's All, Brother - Wikipedia

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   That's All, Brother [a] is a Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft (the military version of the civilian DC-3) that led the formation of 800 others from which approximately 13,000 U.S. paratroopers jumped on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the beginning of the liberation of France in the last two years of World War II.

4. List of surviving Douglas C-47 Skytrains - Wikipedia

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   The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's C-47 in June 2023. 12913 – CC-129 airworthy with Buffalo Airways in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. [25] 12932 – CC-129 airworthy with Buffalo Airways in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. [25] 12945 – Dakota III airworthy at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario. [26]

5. No. 46 Group RAF - Wikipedia

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   The main aircraft used in No. 46 Group was the Douglas Dakota. On 10 June 1944, two aircraft of No. 1697 (Air Despatch Letter Service) Flight , a unit of No. 46 Group equipped with modified Hawker Hurricane , a single-seat fighter aircraft , to deliver secret mail and small equipment to the Normandy beachheads, had the honor to become the first ...

6. Douglas Aircraft Company - Wikipedia

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   Douglas continued to develop new aircraft, including the successful four-engined Douglas DC-6 (1946) and its last propeller-driven commercial aircraft, the Douglas DC-7 (1953). The company had moved into jet propulsion, producing its first for the U.S. Navy — the straight-winged F3D Skyknight in 1948 and then the more "jet age" style F4D ...

7. On D-Day, remembering three ‘Angels of Omaha’ who ... - AOL

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   The single most important day of the 20th century was 79 years ago on June 6, 1944, during the pinnacle of World War II. It will forever be remembered as D-Day, but the official code name was ...

8. ‘Larger-than-life’ D-Day veteran George Chandler dies aged 99

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   A D-Day veteran who served as a torpedo boat gunner escorting American forces has died at the age of 99. George Chandler, from Burgess Hill, West Sussex, who lost his sight in later life, was to ...

9. 1944 Neuleiningen Douglas DC-3 shootdown - Wikipedia

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   On 24 September 1944, a Douglas C-47 Dakota operated by the Royal Air Force was shot down over Neuleiningen by a Messerschmitt Bf 109 after it veered off course into Germany, killing all 23 occupants on board. [1]