ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 341246
| Date: | Thursday 26 November 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 41-38631 |
| MSN: | 4734 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | near Dobodura -
 Papua New Guinea
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Dobodura Airfield |
| Port Moresby-Wards Airfield |
Took off from Dobodura on a flight bound for Wards Drome near Port Moresby. After takeoff, the C-47 was intercepted at low altitude and shot down by Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero fighters.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
pacificwrecks.com
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