C-47 is an aircraft that remains a popular favourite and an acknowledged classic design, carrying out missions every bit as strategically important and as dramatic for the aircrew as those of the fighters and bombers. The C-47's wartime operations paved the way for post-war military air transport. It also demonstrated how the USAAF was able to invest in and carry out a mission that it had not devoted much time to preparing for in terms of pre-war doctrine (in contrast to strategic bombing). In addition to linking theatres (by flying across 'the Hump'), it showed how vital it was to operations within a theatre like New Guinea. Even if massed airborne invasions were not carried out in the PTO/CBI, all air arms need transports like the C-47.
| Published | Feb 27 2007 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 96 |
| ISBN | 9781846030468 |
| Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
| Illustrations | 104 b/w |
| Dimensions | 248 x 184 mm |
| Series | Combat Aircraft |
| Short code | COM 66 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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