Il C-47 Dakota: aereo multiruolo...

Soldiers paratroopers are embarking on a Dakota...

This C-47 Skytrain loaded with 500 lb. GP bombs is ready for take-off...

Members of the 56th Medical Battalion check the litters aboard a Douglas C-47 for evacuation from Agrigento to Africa for further medical treatment...

Whole blood being loaded aboard a Douglas C-47 going to the front. These planes carry blood and supplies to the front and bring the wounded back...

Airborn soldiers shown here before invasion of Southern France...

Parapacks tumble from a Douglas C-47...

Douglas C-47s towing CG-4 gliders on a routine mission...

A litter patient is loaded aboard a Douglas C-47 for evacuation from Agrigento to Africa for further medical treatment...

Wounded Italian and Allied soldier waiting under wing of a Douglas C-47 to be flown to hospital in Africa...

Douglas C-47 shown here in invasion formation...

The first Douglas C-47, towing a glider of the 52nd Troop Carrier Wing, takes off from Comiso Airfield, Sicily, during 1943... The tow plane is loaded with paratroopers and the glider carriers infantrymen...

Nurse Katye Swope, 902nd Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron, in a Douglas C-47 loaded with eighteen patients to be evacuated to Africa...

Wounded British and Indian troops being carried on to a Dakota aircraft at a forward airfield in Italy, for evacuation to base hospitals. RAF and British Army medical orderlies are seen helping the wounded onto the plane...

Italy, a long line of ambulances await Troop Carrier transports of the 9th USAF which will be loaded with soldier patients for tranfer to a general hospital...