C-47 Skytrain Photographs | World War II Database

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Aerial view of a glider training airstrip in Texas, 1943. Visible are C-47 Skytrain tow planes with Waco CG-4A gliders. Photo 5 of 5	Almost 40 C-47 Skytrain aircraft at a training airstrip in Texas, 1943.

C-47 Skytrain aircraft towing CG-4A glider off an Algerian airstrip, Feb-Jun 1943	C-47 Skytrain practicing parachute supply drops at a training area in Texas, 1943.

C-47 Skytrain tow planes lined up on a glider training airstrip in Texas, 1943.	One C-47 Skytrain tow plane on the taxiway at a glider training airstrip in Texas and one CG-4A glider on the ramp, 1943.

British and American servicemen loading wounded soldiers onto a C-47 Skytrain transport at Agrigento, Sicily for transportation to hospitals in Africa, 25 Jul 1943. Note litter Jeep and WC54 ambulances.	US Air Transport Command C-47 Skytrain aircraft flying over the Giza Necropolis in Egypt, 1943

C-47 Skytrain transports loaded with paratroopers bound for the raid on Nadzab, New Guinea, 5 Sep 1943 at the Port Moresby 7-Mile Aerodrome. Note General MacArthur and General Kenney standing at the lower left.	United States Army paratroopers dropped from C-47 Skytrains parachuting into Nazdab, New Guinea behind a smoke screen, 5 Sep 1943.

Lieutenant General Millard Harmon, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Admiral William Halsey in New Caledonia, 14 Sep 1943	Army Air Corps XC-47C experimental transport aircraft, Jamaica bay, New York, United States, 13 Nov 1943; note Edo Model 78 floats

C-46 Commando and C-47 Skytrain aircraft of China National Aviation Corporation at rest in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, date unknown	C-47 Skytrain aircraft in China, 1943-1945

C-47 Skytrain aircraft of China National Aviation Corporation at rest in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, date unknown	C-47 Skytrain aircraft of China National Aviation Corporation in flight, date unknown

C-47 Skytrain aircraft towing two CG-4A gliders during a training exercise, date unknown	US Army and Chinese nurses, China, 1944

View from cockpit of a CG-4A glider as it was towed by a C-47 Skytrain aircraft, 1944	16 US Army African-American paratrooper trainees in a C-47 Skytrain aircraft, preparing to make 1 of the 5 qualifying jumps, Fort Benning, Georgia, United States, Mar 1944