Douglas C-47 Skytrain 🛩 Perhaps no aircraft of World War II has been as durable or long-lived as the C-47 Skytrain. Utilizing Douglas Aircraft Company’s DC-3 civilian airliner airframe, it remains one of the most successful aircraft ever built. The DC-3 was the first aircraft to make civilian passenger travel reliable and profitable with the C-47 proving equally trustworthy in military service. A twin-engine, low-winged monoplane, the airframe included a light, all-metal alloy construction with

The C-47 Skytrain never looked like a frontline weapon. It had no guns, no armor plating, and no dramatic silhouette. But in the Second World War, this aircraft became one of the Allies’ most important tools—an unarmed transport that shaped nearly every major campaign. #ww2 #aviation #military #aircraft | World War II Aircraft

When called to duty, the C-47 always answered, repurposing itself into whatever the military asked it to be, and changing warfare forever. Watch the C-47 deliver paratroopers to Normandy, evacuate the wounded from the Pacific, and go on the attack in Vietnam during an all-new episode of Air Warriors, Sunday at 9/8c! | Smithsonian Channel