C-47 Skytrain

• The Douglas C-47 Skytrain (Dakota in RAF use) was the military version of the Douglas DC-3 airliner.

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  Douglas C-47 Skytrain USAF

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  101st Airborne on D-Day

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  C-47 Skytrain/Dakota

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  C-47 internal view

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  British Paratroops of 1st (British) Airborne Division inside a C-47 transport aircraft, 17 September 1944.

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  American C-47 aircraft flying over Gheel in Belgium on their way to Holland for Operation 'Market-Garden'. 17 September 1944

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  An American C-47 aircraft, hit by flak returning from the Market-Garden drop, burns after crash-landing in a field near Gheel in Belgium. 17 September 1944.

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  C-47 Dakotas and paratroops of the 1st (British) Airborne Division silhouetted against a sky as they descend towards Oosterbeek, just outside Arnhem.

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  C-47 releases parachutes with ammunition and rations for American troops about 1500 yards from the Japanese line on the Myitkyina front.

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  C-47 transport planes release hundreds of paratroops and their supplies over the Rees-Wesel area to the east of the Rhine, 24 March 1945.

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  Swedish Air Force Tp 79, 3 april 1984

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  Dakota III ZA947 (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight)

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  Li-2 (russian built C-47)

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  Li-2 (russian built C-47)

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  A C-53 "Skytrooper", a variant of the C-47.

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  Douglas C-47A, Swedish Air Force designation Tp 79, at Torslanda airport, Göteborg

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  A C-47A Skytrain of the Portuguese Air Force.