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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:19 pm 
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Intersting story on C-47s dumped off Thailand.
http://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured-article/the-dakota-hunter-in-search-of-the-last-lost-c-47s.html


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Is it just me, or did the C-47 with D1 look like it had been shot at before...

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Wildchild wrote:
Is it just me, or did the C-47 with D1 look like it had been shot at before...

I believe they punched holes all over the wings to quicken the sinking once in the water.

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