Skytrain stuff ...
Tue Jul 15, 2014 2:38 pm
Although I have more questions than answers about a few of these pics (not unusual) here's a few C-47 photos per request. Sources: SDASM archives, USAF Museum archives, my stuff.
But before that here are a couple of fascinating D-Day airborne videos for your viewing pleasure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5utrJmfEFYE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkKbot6kYG0
Now for some C-47 photos
Navy R4D making FIDO - assisted landing during test
Douglas C-47 Skytrain Aircraft Flying Formation Philippines
Douglas C-47 Skytrain's at Nadzab in New Guinea.
54 C-47 Skytrains of the 317th Troop Carrier Command waiting to start engines to drop the 11th Airborne Infantry Division over Camalaniugan, Northern Luzon, Philippines, June 22, 1945
Spraying DDT insecticide to control mosquitoes and the malaria they carry over the bombed areas in Manila, Philippines, post WWII, April 1945
C-47 Syktrains of the 317th Troop Carrier Command parked in take-off positions at Lipa Airstrip, Philippines, June 22, 1945.
95th Troop Carrier Sq 440th TCG; 6 May 1945.
D-Day C-47
Eugene O'Brien 125th Liason Squadron
C-47 (99th Troop Carrier Squadron) 441-Group (441st Troop Carrier Group) at the airfield near Cherbourg in France 1944.
77th-TCS-435th-TCG-C-47
77th Troop Carrier Squadron, 435th Troop Carrier Group based at Raf Welford
C-47s at Henderson Field viewed from the tower, Guadalcanal, 1945.
Tontouta Air Base July 7 1943. Loaded with C-47's
Operations department cleans up LAES C-47
43-49404, built as a C-47B-15-DK.
Douglas C-47 on NC-ANG ramp
But before that here are a couple of fascinating D-Day airborne videos for your viewing pleasure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5utrJmfEFYE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkKbot6kYG0
Now for some C-47 photos
Navy R4D making FIDO - assisted landing during test
Douglas C-47 Skytrain Aircraft Flying Formation Philippines
Douglas C-47 Skytrain's at Nadzab in New Guinea.
54 C-47 Skytrains of the 317th Troop Carrier Command waiting to start engines to drop the 11th Airborne Infantry Division over Camalaniugan, Northern Luzon, Philippines, June 22, 1945
Spraying DDT insecticide to control mosquitoes and the malaria they carry over the bombed areas in Manila, Philippines, post WWII, April 1945
C-47 Syktrains of the 317th Troop Carrier Command parked in take-off positions at Lipa Airstrip, Philippines, June 22, 1945.
95th Troop Carrier Sq 440th TCG; 6 May 1945.
D-Day C-47
Eugene O'Brien 125th Liason Squadron
C-47 (99th Troop Carrier Squadron) 441-Group (441st Troop Carrier Group) at the airfield near Cherbourg in France 1944.
77th-TCS-435th-TCG-C-47
77th Troop Carrier Squadron, 435th Troop Carrier Group based at Raf Welford
C-47s at Henderson Field viewed from the tower, Guadalcanal, 1945.
Tontouta Air Base July 7 1943. Loaded with C-47's
Operations department cleans up LAES C-47
43-49404, built as a C-47B-15-DK.
Douglas C-47 on NC-ANG ramp
Last edited by Mark Allen M on Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Skytrain stuff ...
Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:12 pm
Got any pre-camo AC-47 Spookies?
Re: Skytrain stuff ...
Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:25 pm
See what I can find for ya
BTW for those who watched the videos, hard to find much better examples of true hero's than what you see in those clips IMHO. Amazing what those fellas went through and even more amazing what they didn't know they would be going through. Certainly a different time and place. God bless all of them and never, ever to be forgotten. Not if I can help it ...
BTW for those who watched the videos, hard to find much better examples of true hero's than what you see in those clips IMHO. Amazing what those fellas went through and even more amazing what they didn't know they would be going through. Certainly a different time and place. God bless all of them and never, ever to be forgotten. Not if I can help it ...