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.

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