Stamp from Jersey's "75th Anniversary of the R.A.F." Commemorative Issue of April 1, 1993

The Douglas DC-3, called the Dakota in the R.A.F. and the R.C.A.F., served a critical role as a transport aircraft during the second world war. Over 10 654 were built in the United States, 2 000 in the Soviet Union and 424 in Japan between 1936 and 1950. The DC-3 had a cruising speed of 333 km/h, a capacity of 21 to 32 passengers or 2,700 kg of cargo, and a range of 2,400 km, with the useful ability to operate from short runways.

At 9:30 am on March 9, 1944, D.F. Grose departed Hurn, in southern England, as a passenger aboard a Dakota that carried him to Cairo via Marseilles and Castel Benito (near Tripoli, Libya). He arrived in Cairo around 4:10 am on March 10, almost twenty-one hours later.

Excerpt from flight log documenting D.F. Grose's trip from Hurn, U.K. to Cairo via Marseille on a DC-3

Sources

Grose, Douglas Fraser. Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot. Royal Canadian Air Force. 1943-1945.

"Douglas DC-3." Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation. 24 Oct. 2024. Web. 29 Oct. 2024
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Molson, K.M.. Canada's National Aviation Museum. Ottawa: National Museum of Science and Technology, 1988.

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