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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 Douglas C-47 Skytrain operators - Wikipedia

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   Royal Air Force Dakota III Two USAAF C-47A Skytrains over France, 1944 British paratroops inside C-47 Dakota, 1944. List of C-47 Skytrain operators includes the country, military service, known squadrons, and related data. The Skytrain or Dakota is a military transport that was developed from the Douglas DC-3 airliner. The C-47 has served with ...

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. 512 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia

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   In February 1944 the squadron changed role and was transferred to No. 46 Group at RAF Broadwell; it was now a tactical Dakota squadron and started training glider towing and parachute dropping. Its first operation in the new role was a leaflet drop on 5 June 1944 over France , this followed intensive flying in and out of France including ...

7. Category:Accidents and incidents involving the Douglas C-47 ...

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   1944 Neuleiningen Douglas DC-3 shootdown; 1946 Railway Air Services Dakota crash; 1946 United States Air Force C-47 Crash at Yan'an; 1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash; 1951 Rio do Sal Linhas Aéreas Paulistas C-47 crash; 1961 Malév Hungarian Airlines Douglas C-47 Skytrain crash; 1973 Sólheimasandur Douglas DC-3 crash; 1978 Finnish Air Force DC-3 crash

8. Are Christmas trees toxic to cats? How to cat-proof your home ...

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   No matter if you decorate immediately after Halloween or you wait until post-Thanksgiving, Christmas trees are a staple of the winter season. From balsam firs to pines and spruces to cedars, there ...

9. No. 575 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia

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   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]