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C-47 Dakota Short
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
C-47 Dakota Short
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
D-Day C-47 Dakota. Short version.
Cropped front view of the Snafu Special C-47 Dakota. There is a panoramic version of this image.
This Douglas C-47 crossed the channel towards the Cotentin Peninsula and dropped paratroops of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (101st Airborne Division) south of Sainte-Mere- Eglise on the onset of D-Day. Throughout the battle of Normandy she flew supply sorties, returning to the UK with wounded soldiers.
In September she carried men of the 82nd Airborne Division to Nijmegen to capture the bridge immortalised in the Film A Bridge Too Far. Months later , riddled by flak, she and her crew were very nearly lost.
At the end of the war a Czechoslovakian airline refitted her for civil use. Repurchased by the French in 1960, she was sold again in 1973 to the Yugoslavian army. At a base near Sarajevo, where she was used as static instructional airframe, she was machine-gunned during the war that engulfed the Balkans.
In 2007, the Association for the Management of the Merville Battery discovered the plane, unveiled her history and launched the operation Saving C-47 #43-15073, designed for the repatriation, restoration and display of the plane to the public, in Normandy.
She now rests in the Battery Museum in Merville, Normandy.
More WW2 and Normandy images at https://weston-westmoreland.pixels.com/collections/normandy+and+the+wwii
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January 11th, 2019
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