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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.
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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Doe claimed that on Sept. 7, 2000, she went to Radio City Music Hall to try to attend the VMAs. The then-13-year-old, who had no ticket, couldn’t get in and watched from outside on a jumbotron ...
Just two weeks later it moved to RAF Broadwell to work-up as a tactical transport squadron with the Douglas Dakota, the military transport version of the Douglas DC-3 airliner. The squadron's first operations were leaflet raids on France, on the eve of D-Day it dropped the 5th Para brigade into the invasion drop zone (Operation Tonga). [6]