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The route the 442nd Troop Carrier Group traversed into Normandy, France, during the early morning hours of June 6, 1944 took them west of the Cherbourg peninsula and over the Channel Islands to approach their designated drop zone near St. Mere Eglise. Aboard the 442nd's 45 C-47 Skytrain aircraft were paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne. The 442nd TCG was the World War II predecessor of the 442nd Fighter Wing. (Graphic by Master Sgt. Bill Huntington)
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D-Day
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Posted: 6/5/2009
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Historic manifest
A World War II passenger manifest reveals one of the last flights of some of the most powerful and notorious in Nazi Germany's high command as prisoners of war. Flying a C-47 Skytrain, members of the 442nd Troop Carrier Group's 305th Troop Carrier Squadron, transported the group to Furth, Germany on Aug. 12, 1945.
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Posted: 8/18/2006
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C-47 Skytrain
C-47, The Army Air Forces used to transport personnel and cargo and, in a combat role, for towing troop-carrying gliders and dropping paratroopers into enemy territory as during the invasions of Sicily in 1943 and of Burma and France in 1944. (b/w), Graphic courtesy of NASA
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C-47 Skytrain
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Posted: 11/17/2004
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