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dux[25] - Dakota
Douglas DC-3 / C-47 aka Dakota, standing "airside" at Duxford.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-47_Skytrain
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 StoneRoad2013
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Known as Dakota to the RAF and Skytrain to the Americans.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-3
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My late father spent part of WW2 as an aircraft electrician, out in the Far East and these planes were used to evacuate emaciated POWs that had been enslaved [there is no other word for their treatment by the Japanese] from Burma. He didn't talk about it that much, but it had definitely affected his outlook ...
6 months ago. Edited 6 months ago.

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