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Courtesy National Archives/NWWIIGPA Collection


British and American prisoners released from Stalag Villa at Landshut, Germany, wait to board C-47s which will ferry them to Le Havre and Brussels on first leg of trip home to England and America. 7 May 1945



evacuation

Courtesy National Archives/NWWIIGPA Collection


Patients being loaded aboard Douglas C-47 transport at a front line air stip. 14 May 1945 WD, BPR, A-29653 A C



Jerricans in C-47s

Courtesy National Archives/NWWIIGPA Collection


ETO HQ 45 4388 30 MARCH 1945
CREDIT...U S ARMY SIGNAL CORPS PHOTOG...T/5 RESHOVSKY (3908)
Jerricans of gasoline is being loaded into a C-47 transport plane at an airfield in france, to be flown to Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army tanks to enable them to maintain the pace of their drive into the heart of Germany. 440th Troop Carrier Group, Air Field A-50, Orleans, France.



Enroute to Bastogne for resupply of the 101st Airborne

Courtesy Brian Gilbert, Photograph taken by SSgt Jerry P. Gilbert (Radio Operator)


Enroute to Bastogne for resupply of the 101st Airborne, Operation Repluse



C-47 with parapack to re-supply the Army

Courtesy National Archives/NWWIIGPA Collection


ETO-USAF, Air Adj. General, Records Branch
A 9th Troop Carrier Command Douglas C-47 with full parapack load, wings its way over France. [CN is the 73rd Squadron of the 434th Group, Commanded by Maj. Terry G. Hutton. Note in the photo just to the rear of the tail is two C-47 perpendicular to this A/C.]



C-47 medical evacuation

Courtesy National Archives/NWWIIGPA Collection


ETO-USAF, Air Adj. General, Records Branch
A 9th Troop Carrier Command Douglas C-47s lined up receiving Medial Evacuees. Possibly after Varsity and the push through the Ruhr Industrial area of Germany [2L is the 302nd Squadron, 441st Group, Commanded by Lt. Col. Frederick Funston.]



C-47 transporting horses, Burma

Courtesy National Archives/NWWIIGPA Collection


“C-47’s of the Air Commando Group, 10th Air Force unload horses and men at Chani, China after flying them over the hump from Nansin, Burma. Note cotton fleeced soldier to the right of the picture. 23 Dec 44 Photo L. Raczkowski”





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