The Douglas C-47, the militarized version of the DC-3, has been hauling humanitarian relief supplies since the days of the Berlin Airlift, and it will be doing so again, according to officials at the ...
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — A C-47 aircraft from World War II will be on public display this week outside of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. The Commemorative Air Force Central Texas Wing flew a ...
Look in The Past on MSN
That time a passenger plane became a warhorse
Born as a civilian airliner, the Douglas DC-3 was never supposed to see war. But its military version, the C-47 Skytrain, became the backbone of Allied logistics in WWII. It dropped paratroopers, ...
Opened in 1931, Floyd Bennett Field briefly served as New York City’s first municipal airport before its conversion to a naval air station during World War II. Located on Jamaica Bay in southeastern ...
American Airpower Museum continues its popular C-47 D-Day Living History Flight Experience on Saturday, Sept. 6, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Passengers will fly in ...
MUSKEGON, Mich. — A Douglas C-47 Skytrain, the same type of aircraft used in World War II and heavily involved in D-Day, is at the Wings Over Muskegon Air Show this weekend. The plane, called ...
The angels rose slowly in the dead of night, thousands of them in low formation across the English Channel. From British shores the American troopers were a prayer sent, and in French skies, one ...
The Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST), the initial variant of the iconic DC-3, made its first flight on December 17, 1935, coincidentally on the 32nd anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight.
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