Date:	Sunday 17 September 1944
Time:	13:30
Type:	Douglas C-47A-25-DK (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	42-93803
MSN:	13755
Year of manufacture:	1944
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	UI
Location:	near Retie -   Belgium
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Aldermaston-USAAF Station 467
Destination airport:	Aldermaston-USAAF Station 467

Narrative:
The aircraft operated on a paratroop mission as part of Operation Market Garden. The 17 paratroopers were dropped over Dropzone A, near Veghel, the Netherlands.
On the way back the aircraft was hit by flak and an in-flight fire developed. One crew members survived after bailing out.

MACR
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The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge

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