Date:	Tuesday 6 June 1944
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-53D Skytrooper (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	42-68734
MSN:	11661
Year of manufacture:	1943
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	off Normandy -   France
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Welford RAF Station
Destination airport:	Welford RAF Station

Narrative:
The C-53 transport plane ditched in the English Channel on the way back from a glider mission to Normandy (Operation Elmira). The crew was rescued by a destroyer.
The glider drop time was about 23:10 hours.

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
dday-overlord.com

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