42-5694

media-42478.jpeg UPL 42478

Flygvapenmuseum

Object Number - UPL 42478

Assigned to 61TCG, 9AF USAAF. Chalk #5 Serial 24. Pilot Butler. D-Day carrying members of 2nd btn, 507th PIR, 82nd Airborne



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 Hugin.

13 june 1952 shoot down by Soviet air over Baltic Sea. All 8 in crew missing. Not found until 2003, and brought up in march 2004. Can now been seen at Flygvapenmuseum i Linköping, Sweden.

https://www.flygvapenmuseum.se/utstallningar/hemliga-handlingar-dc-3an-…

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