Yukon C-47 Crash Site Revisited, Must See Dramatic New Photos
In my last week’s blog ( September 3 , 2015), I wrote about USAF’s horror year 1950, with 6 aircraft lost in 7 weeks, including…
50 Years of C-47 Gunship conversions, Spooky man hunts from Vietnam to Colombia – By Hans Wiesman
The first C-47’s converted as “Gunships” flew in Dec. 1964 in Vietnam and their controversial start showed instantly tremendous successes in the close air support,…
RAF North Witham / Station 479 – D-Day Paratrooper Departure Airfield
On the evening of the 5th June in 1944, Douglas C-47 Dakota aircraft took off from the USAAF base in Witham, Lincolnshire. The planes carried…
Airborne Aircraft Carriers of the early 1950’s by Hans Wiesman
B-29 Super Fortress coupled to two EF-84 D’s with wing tips connected to each other in flight. During WWII, the flight range of the USAF…
Yukon C-47 Crash Site Revisited, Must See Dramatic New Photos
In my last week’s blog ( September 3 , 2015), I wrote about USAF’s horror year 1950, with 6 aircraft lost in 7 weeks, including…
DC-3’s Immortality Captured In Your Own C-47 War Relic Skin Panel – By Hans Wiesman
The Douglas Dc-3 was developed as a stretched version from its successful predecessor DC-2 that first flew in 1934. That model crushed the dominance of…
Guest Blogger The Dakota Hunter: Nippon’s 2nd attack plan on US, Genesis of Alaska Highway 1942
Right after the successful Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor/ Hawaii on Dec 7, 1941, many American citizens must have panicked over the next aggressive move…
Mystery Diamond DC-3, Shot, Crashed & Robbed – by Hans Wiesman
The Diamond DC-3 after the crash, about to be robbed from a fortune by a group of Beachcombers With the advance of the Japanese invasion…
Dakota Blues or “Celebrating 80 years of the DC-3 Maiden flight”? by Hans Wiesman
The C-47 Fuselage was displayed in the Ardennes forest for a war movie. In the past years, we have seen a larger number of DC-3’s…
Ghosts of the Gooney Bird Volume 3 – By Hans Wiesman
In my previous Blogs Ghosts of the Gooney Bird, I showed pictures of crashed , lost and derelict Douglas C-47’s/ DC-3’s/ Dakotas. Most of them…
WWII Douglas C-47 Rescued by CAF
A plane that played a crucial role in WWII by leading the D-Day invasion has been discovered in a scrapyard in United States. The fate…
DC-3, Icon of Victory, by Hans Wiesman
Just 3 days after the 6th of June 1944, USAAF Engineers achieved the unthinkable. Right next to Omaha Beach on the Normandy coast at Saint…