ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340886
Date: | Friday 9 July 1943 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 42-32915 |
MSN: | 9141 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Gela, Sicily -
Italy
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy, codenamed Operation Husky, began on the night of 910 July 1943, when 2,200 paratroopers were dropped into Gela.
Douglas C-47 42-32915 was one of the aircraft that crashed during the operation.
Sources:
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR) The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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