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C-47 Skytrain aircraft towing CG-4A glider off an Algerian airstrip, Feb-Jun 1943C-47 Skytrain practicing parachute supply drops at a training area in Texas, 1943.
C-47 Skytrain aircraft towing CG-4A glider off an Algerian airstrip, Feb-Jun 1943C-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.
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
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.
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 1943Army Air Corps XC-47C experimental transport aircraft, Jamaica bay, New York, United States, 13 Nov 1943; note Edo Model 78 floats
Lieutenant General Millard Harmon, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Admiral William Halsey in New Caledonia, 14 Sep 1943Army 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 unknownC-47 Skytrain aircraft of China National Aviation Corporation in flight over China or Burma, circa 1944
C-46 Commando and C-47 Skytrain aircraft of China National Aviation Corporation at rest in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, date unknownC-47 Skytrain aircraft of China National Aviation Corporation in flight over China or Burma, circa 1944
C-47 Skytrain aircraft towing two CG-4A gliders during a training exercise, date unknownC-47 Skytrain aircraft, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, 1943-1945
C-47 Skytrain aircraft towing two CG-4A gliders during a training exercise, date unknownC-47 Skytrain aircraft, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, 1943-1945
CNAC pilot Erik Shilling (left), copilot (front), and radio operator (Chinese man, rear) with their C-53 Skytrooper aircraft belonging to the China National Aviation Corporation, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, 1940sUS Army and Chinese nurses, China, 1944
CNAC pilot Erik Shilling (left), copilot (front), and radio operator (Chinese man, rear) with their C-53 Skytrooper aircraft belonging to the China National Aviation Corporation, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, 1940sUS Army and Chinese nurses, China, 1944
View from cockpit of a CG-4A glider as it was towed by a C-47 Skytrain aircraft, 1944Flight Lieutenant L H Abbott, British Air Ministry official photographer, holding a Fairchild K-20 aerial camera in front of a Douglas Dakota aircraft, 1943-44.
View from cockpit of a CG-4A glider as it was towed by a C-47 Skytrain aircraft, 1944Flight Lieutenant L H Abbott, British Air Ministry official photographer, holding a Fairchild K-20 aerial camera in front of a Douglas Dakota aircraft, 1943-44.
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 1944USAAF pilot James M. Dalby in front of a C-47 Skytrain aircraft belonging to the China National Aviation Corporation, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, Apr 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 1944USAAF pilot James M. Dalby in front of a C-47 Skytrain aircraft belonging to the China National Aviation Corporation, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, Apr 1944

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