Date:	Tuesday 6 June 1944
Time:	01:40
Type:	Douglas C-47A-70-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	42-100733
MSN:	19196
Year of manufacture:	1943
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 19 / Occupants: 23
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	UI
Location:	1,5 km N off Pointe du Hoc -   France
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Exeter Airport (EXT/EGTE)
Destination airport:	Exeter Airport (EXT/EGTE)

Narrative:
Shot down by flak while on a mission to drop paratroopers over Angoville-au-Plain, France. Four paratroopers had already jumped when the plane was hit.

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
France-Crashes 39-45

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