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11-143 Garand Picture of the Day - 82nd ABN Div. Market Garden
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Great photos Mark! I think the top negative was backward though.
The backwards markings and the door is on the left side of C-47's so people are usually seen staging on that side.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...etgarden-2.jpg
I've been a crew chief on one of the C-47's owned by the CAF and they're really neat aircraft.
(Ours is a Navy version of the C-47 designated R4D)
MY ugly mug one of the passengers took while flying through weather coming back from an airshow a few years ago.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...ewChief3-1.jpg
Below are some more photos of our C-47 (R4D) after restoration
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...82Medium-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...96Medium-1.jpg
These 'crates' are used to carry spares and oil, etc to shows.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...84Medium-1.jpg
We installed an old military stretcher deal to demonstrate how C-47's were used to evacuate injured.
(There's lots of this stuff still out there NOS for C-47's)
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...95Medium-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...06Medium-1.jpg
Navigation station restored
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...07Medium-1.jpg
I took this photo from our BT-13 on a foggy day. The weather seemed fitting for an atlantic Navy patrol aircraft which this one was.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...R4D_fog1-1.jpg
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Love the wind drift indicator at the Nav station in the second last picture. I haven't seen one since I last flew a Dakota many decades ago.
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I spent many an hour at the nav. position on AF C-47s. Can you believe a flight from Travis AFB Ca. to Hickam AFB in Hawaii. I believe the Navy R4Ds had slightly larger engines that the AF C-47s. Bill Hughes
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Bill, I think the larger engines were fitted to the USN R4Ds that had the modified, squarish tails.
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That's correct. I think was called a R4D-8 and also a Super DC-3 in civil form and could be easily recognized by the square tail.
Ours is a standard R4D with 1830's and is almost exactly the same as a C-47 with a few small differences mainly in the cabin. They were manufactured side by side on the production line.
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Many of the gliders were burned where they laid. During some photo mapping during the 1960s, ghostly images of the outlines of the gliders were still visible from the air. I looked tonight but couldn't find them.
Bob
