11-143 Garand Picture of the Day - 82nd ABN Div. Market Garden

[Mark in Rochester]

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Aerial photographs taken during reconnaissance missions in World War 2 - Telegraph

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[Harlan (Deceased)]

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.



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.



Below are some more photos of our C-47 (R4D) after restoration



These 'crates' are used to carry spares and oil, etc to shows.


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)




Navigation station restored


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.

[Paul S.]

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.

[Bill Hughes]

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

[Paul S.]

Bill, I think the larger engines were fitted to the USN R4Ds that had the modified, squarish tails.

[Harlan (Deceased)]

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.

[Bob Womack]

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