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* Douglas C-47 Skytrain and Dakota: Primary transport of the Allies in the later half of World War II, the Dakota accompanied the RAF to Greece and was heavily used to supply British forces there.
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On May 3, 1952, U. S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher and Lieutenant William Pershing Benedict, along with scientist Albert P. Crary, landed a modified Douglas C-47 Skytrain at the North Pole.
During World War II, the Midwest City Douglas Aircraft Company Plant constructed more than half of the 10, 000 C-47 Skytrain U. S. Army cargo planes.
Refugees awaiting Military operations in Poonch ( 1948 ) | evacuation by Douglas C-47 Skytrain | IAF Dakota on Poonch Airstrip, December 1947.
The fleet was initially consisted mainly of Douglas DC-3s ( There were thousands of surplus C-47 Dakotas ( the military variant of the DC-3 ) available to help airlines restart operations after the war.
* On 17 September 1946 at 01: 47 local time, a Douglas C-47 ( registered OO-AUR ) crashed upon take-off from Haren Airfield, killing one crew member.
* On 27 August 1949, a Douglas C-47 ( registered OO-CBK ) experienced a loss of engine power shortly after take-off from Leopoldville Airport for a flight to Elizabethville, Democratic Republic of the Congo, with 17 passengers and three crew on board.
Transport aircraft such as the Douglas C-47 Dakota, Bristol Freighter, De Havilland Devon, Handley Page Hastings, Douglas DC-6, C-130 Hercules, Andover, Boeing 727 and Boeing 757 were operated by Numbers 1, 40, 41 and 42 Squadrons.
The company is most famous for the " DC " (" Douglas Commercial ") series of commercial aircraft, including what is often regarded as the most significant transport aircraft ever made: the DC-3, which was also produced as a military transport known as the C-47 Skytrain or " Dakota.
An ex-USAF Douglas C-47 Skytrain | C-47A Skytrain, the military version of the DC-3, on display in England in 2010.
There used to be a Second World War Douglas C-47 Skytrain Dakota transport aircraft, and in years previous to that a Spitfire fighter, that scattered remembrance poppy petals over the town, aiming at the war memorial.
He also innovated an early version of the AC-47 gunship, by using Douglas C-47 Skytrain transports as weaponry.
While the unit is marched around the field by the drill sergeant ( Pete ), Donald is distracted by Douglas C-47 Skytrains flying overhead, reminding him that he would rather be flying.
* Douglas C-47 / C-53 SkytrainOfficially known as Skytrain but affectionately referred to as " Gooney Bird ," the C-47 served in Korea as it had during World War II.
Douglas and Skytrain
In 1977 the KC-10 Extender was the second McDonnell Douglas transport aircraft to be selected for use by the US Air Force ; the first being the C-9 Nightingale / Skytrain II.
* Douglas C-47 Skytrain also known as the Dakota, a military transport developed from the Douglas DC-3 airliner
Douglas C-47 Skytrain | C47 s unloading at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, part of the airlift of supplies which broke the Soviet Union's 1948 Berlin Blockade | land blockade of West Berlin
Douglas and Dakota
Many of these made one-way journeys into occupied France as part of the D-Day landings, and later Holland for the Arnhem landing, towed from England behind aircraft such as the Douglas Dakota and Handley Page Halifax.
It is the only county in South Dakota named for a non-American person and is one of only nine counties in South Dakota named for persons who did not live in South Dakota ( Clay, Custer, Douglas, Grant, Hamlin, Lincoln, McPherson, and Meade are the other eight ).
* On 25 January 1947 ( 1947 Croydon Dakota accident ), a Spencer Airways Douglas Dakota failed to get airborne on a flight to Rhodesia.
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