11 Feb 43: TOS USAAF. 5/43: 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group, 8th Air Force, ferried to North African Theater of Operations. Flew two paratrooper drops during invasion of Sicily, sustaining damage. Flew paratroopers on D-Day and Operation Market Garden. For the latter operation it also flew gliders and dropped supplies. Also flew paratroops during operation Varsity. 1943-1945: Flew hundreds of supply and hospital missions in-between the eight combat missions. Returned to USA 16 Jul 1945, sold in 1947.

Photographed at "The Last Time" DC-3 gathering celebrating the 75th anniversary of the type's first flight. The aircraft is still operational with the Mid America Flight Museum at Mount Pleasant, Texas.

A troop carrier in North Africa as 42-32832, this C-47 went to the Reconstruction Finance Corp in 1946 for disposal. Converted to a DC-3C, it flew as NC75412 and N5106 for General Motors until 1967. Pictured at the 1986 DC-3 50th Anniversary Fly in, the aircraft is currently part of the Mid America Flight Museum collection in Mount Pleasant, TX.

Ex General Motors Corporation. Registered to Henry Oliver III at the time.

The airplane was part of a large group that toured the US to commemorate the end of WW2.