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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.
The next day, everyone descended towards the Alpine Club's Gauli hut at 7,234 ft (2,205 m), failing to make radio contact with the coordinators in the valley. At 10.20 AM, SwAF pilots Captain Victor Hug and Major Pista Hitz, managed to land two Fieseler Storch aircraft on the glacier beside the rescuers, and with eight flights, everyone was ...
The 1996 Texel Douglas DC-3 crash occurred on September 25, 1996, when the Douglas DC-3 aircraft, nicknamed "Dakota" and registered as PH-DDA, operated by the Dutch Dakota Association (DDA), crashed into the Wadden Sea. The accident resulted in the loss of all 32 occupants on board.
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.
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 ...
42-68830 D-Day Doll – Inland Empire Wing of the Commemorative Air Force in Riverside, California. [153] On display (complete airframes) C-47. 41-7723 – Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. [154] 41-18482 – Museum of Alaska Transportation & Industry in Wasilla, Alaska. [citation needed] C-47A/R4D-5
United States Army Air Forces Douglas A-26C-35-DT Invader 44-35553 on a training flight collided in mid-air with Eastern Air Lines Flight 45 from Washington, D.C. to Columbia, South Carolina, a Douglas DC-3-201C NC25647 at roughly 3,100 feet (940 m), 11.9 miles (19.2 km) west-northwest of Florence, South Carolina at 2:36 pm. The A-26's vertical ...
Others critical included Max Hastings (Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy) and James Huston (Out of the Blue: U.S. Army Airborne Operations in World War II). As late as 2003 a prominent history ( Airborne: A Combat History of American Airborne Forces by retired Lieutenant General E.M. Flanagan) repeated these and other assertions, all ...