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UPL 42478
Flygvapenmuseum
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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- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Troop Carrier
- Unit Hierarchy: Command
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Troop Carrier
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- Site type: Airfield
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