October 9, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Hi, can anyone please tell me what the colour scheme a DC3 Dakota of the 27th Air Transport group would be in February 1945?
Thanks
Adam
By: earthling - 9th October 2012 at 20:06
Thank you David
By: DavidIsby - 9th October 2012 at 20:05
Colour profiles can be found in:
David Isby, C-47 and R4D Units of the ET0/MTO, published by Osprey in their line of monographs.
By: earthling - 9th October 2012 at 19:31
DC3 Colours
Thanks Alan,
I think it was permanently assigned to them. It was ferrying troops from Istres to Grove for R and R. I have been given wreckage by a farmer who collected it at the time, but he was not sure if it was from that or from a 617 Lancaster as they came down close to each other. The colours are brown and green
Thank you
Adam
By: Alan Clark - 9th October 2012 at 19:26
Probably plain olive upper surfaces and light grey lower surfaces, in line with other USAAF units operating C-47s. Are we talking aircraft which were permanently assigned to the 27th ATG or those they were ferrying?