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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. The Lost Evidence - Wikipedia

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   Episode Number Title Episode 1 D-Day: Episode 2 North Africa: Episode 3 Battle of the Bulge: Episode 4 Sicily: Episode 5 Liberation of Paris: Episode 6 Breakout from Normandy: Episode 7 Battle of Berlin: Episode 8 Crossing the Rhine: Episode 9 Monte Cassino: Episode 10 Stalingrad: Episode 11 Operation Market Garden: Episode 12 Peleliu: Episode ...

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

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   43-30652 Whiskey 7 – National Warplane Museum in Geneseo, New York. This aircraft was a lead plane in Mission Boston during the airborne invasion of Normandy during D-Day. [128] [129] 43-48080 – Avionics Engineering Center of Ohio University in Albany, Ohio. It is painted in a civilian scheme. [130] [131] C-47B/R4D-6

6. 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 ...

7. Wings (1988 TV series) - Wikipedia

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   Starting in the mid 1990s, newer Wings episodes, sometimes referred to as Wings II, would focus on the history or operations of a particular foreign air force, such as the Israeli Air Force, a foreign aviation company or design bureau such as France's Dassault or Russia's Mikoyan, or the aircraft of a particular conflict such as the Korean War ...

8. Douglas C-54 plane with 2 people on board crashes into river ...

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   The C-54 is a military version of the Douglas DC-4, which was a World War II-era airplane. The website www.airlines.net said standard passenger seating for a DC-4 was 44 during its heyday, but ...

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.