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| Date: | Tuesday 8 February 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas Dakota I (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | FD775 |
| MSN: | 6239 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Location: | Arakan -
 Myanmar
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Dakota FD775 was shot down by a Japanese fighter whilst he was on a supply dropping sortie over Arakan.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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