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11-143 Garand Picture of the Day - 82nd ABN Div. Market Garden
Last edited by Mark in Rochester; 05-21-2011 at 01:38 PM.
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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
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