ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340842
| Date: | Tuesday 13 July 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 41-19483 |
| MSN: | 6126 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | 20 km SW of Catania, Sicily -
 Italy
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | El Djem Airfield |
| El Djem Airfield |
Crashed near Catania, Sicily, Italy after being hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire. The aircraft operated in a paradrop flight from El Djem, Tunisia.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
MACR
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