C-47/R4D Units of the ETO and MTO
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Combat Aircraft 54

Author: David Isby

Illustrator: Chris Davey

About this book
The C-47 units of the USAAF were an integral part of some of the most dramatic episodes of the European war: the airborne assaults in North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, southern France, Operation Market Garden and the crossing of the Rhine. The mass fratricide off Sicily, the night drop for D-Day and the Bastogne supply missions are also covered, along with more typical accounts of training, formation flying, airdrops and casualty evacuation missions. This book details an aircraft that remains a popular favourite and an acknowledged design classic, carrying out missions every bit as strategically important and as dramatic for the aircrew as those of the fighters and bombers.

Contents


  • Origins · North Africa · Sicily and the ‘Soft Underbelly’ · D-Day and Normandy · Airborne Invasions and Air Resupply · Italy and the Balkans · Decisive Battles and Victory · A New Way of Air Warfare · Appendix 1: USAAF
  • USN C-47 Units In ETO
  • MTO · Appendix 2: The Aircraft

Paperback; January 2005; 96 pages; ISBN: 9781841767505


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