ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 338985
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Date: | Saturday 23 December 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 43-15322 |
MSN: | 19788 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Mellier, 30 km WSW Bastogne -
Belgium
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Made belly landing near Bastogne in the woods of the village of Mellier, 30 km WSW of Bastogne, on its way or on the return to/from a re-supply mission to the besieged troops of the 101st Airborne division at Bastogne. At least one of the crew members was wounded.
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