Date:	Tuesday 6 June 1944
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47A-75-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	42-100914
MSN:	19377
Year of manufacture:	1943
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	UI
Location:	16 km off Normandy -   France
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Exeter Airport (EXT/EGTE)
Destination airport:	Exeter Airport (EXT/EGTE)

Narrative:
Hit by flak and ditched 10 miles off during Normandy invasion (Operation Overlord). The airplane was returning to Exeter after dropping 17 paratroopers over Normandy.

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