Date:	Tuesday 19 September 1944
Time:	15:10
Type:	Douglas C-47A-5-DK (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	42-108837
MSN:	12218
Year of manufacture:	1944
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	UI
Location:	SW of Retie -   Belgium
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Chilbolton-USAAF Station AAF-404
Destination airport:	Chilbolton-USAAF Station AAF-404

Narrative:
Crashed during Operation Market Garden when it was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. The C-47 operated on a glider tow mission from Chilbolton.

MACR
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge

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