42-32877
Object Number - UPL 40684 - 42-32877 as a museum in Karlsborg Sweden
Assigned to 47TCS, 313TCG, 9AF USAAF. Chalk #36 Serial 22. Pilot Elwin R Smith. D-Day carrying members of 1th btn, 508th PIR.
42-32877 take part in all major missions during WW2. Husky one and two in Sicily. Giant one and Two in Italy. Mission Boston on D-day, and mission Freeport D-day +1. And finally Market Garden.
After war sold to Sweden as a passenger plane. Than to sold Swedish Air Force 1949, and used for ESM (signal intelligence) over Baltic Sea, and get the namn Munin.
From may 2009 as a Museum in Karlsborg, Sweden at the Parachute Ranger School, equipped as a Swedish jumping plane in the 1960s
https://www.dc-3.se/karlsborg/
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Troop Carrier
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 313th Troop Carrier Group 47th Troop Carrier Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 313th Troop Carrier Group 47th Troop Carrier Squadron
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 313th Troop Carrier Group 47th Troop Carrier Squadron
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 313th Troop Carrier Group 47th Troop Carrier Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 313th Troop Carrier Group 47th Troop Carrier Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Missions
- Date: 6 June 1944
- Official Description: