Airforce C-47's

[connie]

Floyd gives an account of his witnessing a Sky Train of C-47's fly overhead on March 22, 1944, with the planes probably filled with parachute jumpers.
106thdivision.proboards.com/board/23/remembering-out-loud

Here are some fantastic photos of the plane found in an air combat museum in Topeka Kansas
ttp://www.combatairmuseum.org/aircraft/douglasskytrain.html

Here's a link to a National Air Force Museum account of the use and history of that plane:
www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=502

Here's some more info and photos of the plane in Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-47_Skytrain

There are more. If you find a favorite, please add it. I'd love to see a view from below with a sky filled with these planes -- like Floyd described.

I was also interested in their "snatch and grab" capacity...