C-47 SKYTRAIN TRANSPORT MAKES MAIDEN FLIGHT
Long Beach, California • December 23, 1941 Of all the workhorse aircraft in World War II, none was more widely and effectively deployed than the Douglas C‑47 military transport. Nicknamed the “Gooney Bird” by American crewmen and passengers, the C‑47 Skytrain was a derivative of the Douglas propeller-driven commercial airliner, the DC‑3. (The British and Australians…