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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Airborne operations
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Date: 6 Jul 90 03:27:49 GMT
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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
A long long time ago (in a galaxy far far away...) I read a book on the
DC-3/C-47, which mentioned that some C-47 fuselages were equipped as
gliders.  Basically Douglas left the engines out and capped off the
nacelles.  One of these could be towed by a standard C-47.  Perhaps a
few of these were used on D-Day, or shortly afterwards.

The book gave the impression that those involved eventually concluded
the fuselages were better employed by putting the engines in.