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Erik: thank you for your offer - I will certainly take you up on that!
Jim: nothing political about this: it is just history. But remember: it was very much a combined effort in which the United States Air Force, the Royal Air Force, the French Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and the South African Air Force all took part. Of course the DC-4 Skymaster / C-54 was used in great numbers, but many other types of aircraft were involved.
USA planes:
C-47 Skytrain or its civilian counterpart Douglas DC-3
C-54 Skymasters and Douglas DC-4s (330 aircraft, which made them the most used types).
Five C-82 Packets
one YC-97A Stratofreighter 45-59595
British planes:
Avro Lancaster
Avro Lincoln
Avro York
Avro Tudor
Avro Lancastrian
Bristol Type 170 Freighter
Douglas DC-3 (Dakota)
Handley Page Hastings
Handley Page Halifax Halton
Short Sunderland
Vickers VC.1 Viking
This illustrates the 'danger' of becoming interested in a subject: it becomes more and more fascinating, and Google and Wikipedia makes it easy!
Last edited by Diderick A. den Bakker; 04-20-2019 at 04:41 PM.
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