43-15176

Assigned to the 313th TCG, 48th TCS, and flew from Folkingham Air Base in D-Day Mission Boston, Serial 22 to Drop Zone N.  The mission was to drop parachute soldiers from the 82nd Airborne.

C-47 43-15176 also flew in the 437th TCG in Serial A-29 on 17 September 1944, from Station 469, Ramsbury Air Base, towing Waco glider 42-19702 to LZ-W in Operation Market Garden.  The C-47 was piloted by 1LT Ernest Dix and 2LT Herman Fox, Crew Chief Sgt Robert P. Marshall, and Radio Operator Cpl Eugene B Valdemi.  The Waco glider was piloted by Flight Officer Arthur R Johnson. 

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437th TROOP CARRIER GROUP OFFICE OF OPERATIONS APO 133, MISSION ORDER NUMBER 2, 6 JUNE 1944

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"Market Garden Flights" volume 10, 437th Troop Carrier Group, Compiled by Hans Den Brok, Oss, Netherlands

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47th TCS Diary